December 2003
Cristina Lopes receives a prestigious NSF CAREER grant
Cristina
LopesLopes' grant, at $400,000, funds her work in naturalistic programming.
This research is based on the hypothesis that Natural Languages, and the ways people use them, provide excellent clues for how people express complex situations, and that the complexities of software development may be lessened by adopting into computer programming certain mechanisms that exist in Natural Languages.
As such, this project undertakes the design, implementation and empirical evaluation of new programming language mechanisms that are inferred from Natural Languages rather than from Computer Engineering or from Mathematics.
The result will be the availability of new, more intuitive and more succient programming languages.
With Lopes' grant, the total number of NSF CAREER grant recipients in the department is now six (five NSF CAREER, one PECASE), resulting in an unprecedented 45% of the faculty members having been recipients of this highly distinguished honor.
