Peter Wegner

Interview

• "Object-oriented programming" (Roma, 06/01/96)

Biography

Professor of Information Science at Brown University (Providence, USA), Wegner (pw@cs.brown.edu) studied at the Universities of London and Cambridge and has taught at Cornell and Penn State Universities and the London School of Economics.

His current research interests are interaction, compound and active document systems (such as OpenDoc, JavaBeans and ActiveX),, programming languages and software engineering. He has published books on Ada and the direction of research on software engineering and object oriented programming.

He currently teaches at Brown University (http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/pw ), where he teaches two courses: a graduate level course on programming languages, and an undergraduate course called Concepts and Challenges of Computing. He is the editor-in chief of Computing Surveys and of The Brown Faculty Bulletin.

Bibliography

Among his recent publications:

• Frameworks for Compound Active Documents, Work in Progress 1998.
• Interactive Foundations of Computing, Final Draft, Theoretical Computer Science, February 1998.
• A Research Agenda for Interactive Computing, Work in Progress, 1998.
• On the Expressive Power of Interactive Observers, Work in Progress, 1998.
• Why Interaction Is More Powerful Than Algorithms, Communications of the ACM., May 1997.
• Interactive Software Technology, Handbook of Computer Science and Engineering, CRC Press, 1996.