Since 2009 Mozilla has supported the graduate-level work of PhD students at Northeastern University, developing new tools for the standardization, streamlining, and testing of JavaScript. In 2009 we contributed $99,115 to the research efforts of Sam Tobin-Hochstadt. In 2010 Mozilla made two gifts: one of $107,596 to further support Mr. Tobin-Hochstadt's research and another gift of $76,374 to Demetrios Vardoulakis.
Grant Summary
- 2009: $99,115
- 2010: $183,970
- Focus: Open Source
- Recipient: Northeastern University
- Location: United States
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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt's research under Professor Mitchell Wand has primarily focused on the next revision of the JavaScript programming language, including enabling programmers to evolve existing JavaScript code to use new language features such as modules. Dimitros Vardoulakis, working under the direction of Olin Shivers, has focused on CFA2, a new flow analysis for functional languages. CFA2 is the first flow analysis with unbounded call/return matching in the presence of higher-order functions and tail calls. As a summer intern at Mozilla, Mr. Vardoulakis implemented CFA2 for JavaScript and used it for type inference. Mozilla used the analysis in Doctor JS, a web service that analyzes JavaScript code.
Northeastern University
Northeastern's College of Computer and Information Science was the first college in the nation devoted to Computer Science. As an independent college within a large university, they have the agility to form interdisciplinary programs with all other academic units and this has led to ties with Arts & Sciences, Business, Engineering, Criminal Justice, and the Bouve College of Health Sciences at the undergraduate and graduate level.
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