Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

Professorship

Jan van Eijck was appointed Professor at Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Distinguised scientist

In August Michael Godfrey joined us for a year of his sabbatical from University of Waterloo (Canada).

Rascal release

A new version of the Rascal meta-programming language was released in October.

Forensics

The Derric domain specific language generates faster and more accurate implementations than its competitors in the digital forensics arena, using less than 1500 lines of code.

Inception of Ensō

In a collaboration with University of Texas, Tijs van der Storm introduced the Ensō framework: a new form of programming based on the concepts of model driven engineering.

Eclipse

The source code of Rascal was approved for inclusion in the Eclipse IMP source code and releases.