About the technology author(s):
Chris Laffra
Frank Tip
Peter Sweeney
Chris Laffra's research interests include Java compilers, Java development environments, Java virtual machines, performance analyzers, visualization of Java execution, and program understanding. His group, the Java Tools Group of the Software Technology Department at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, does research on Java compilers, Java development environments, Java virtual machines, Java performance analyzers, tools for visualizing Java execution, and tools for understanding Java programs. This group created the "Jikes" Java compiler, now available here on alphaWorks.
Mr. Laffra has written a book on Advanced Java for Prentice Hall. He also wrote the cover story for the August 1997 edition of Application Development Trends Magazine.
Frank Tip is a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. He works in the Program Analysis, Transformation, and Visualization group, which is part of Software Development Technology. The main focus of his work at IBM is on the development of algorithms and tools that assist programmers with the understanding and porting of object-oriented software. His primary research interests are program analysis, program slicing, program understanding, analysis of object-oriented languages, class hierarchy transformations, program restructuring/transformation, Year2000 analysis, and compiler optimization techniques.
Mr. Tip has had numerous papers published in journals; he has also published many technical reports and has contributed papers to conferences and workshops, and he has co-written a chapter in a book.
Peter Sweeney's research interests include optimizations of object-oriented languages and performance analysis of object-oriented applications. He works in the Object-Oriented Optimization group, which is part of Software Development Technology at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York.
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