Hello, I am a senior computer science undergraduate at BITS - Pilani, Goa Campus [1], India.
I hope to gain some experience doing research in programming languages and compiler design. I was wondering, is the VPRI and FONC team open to accommodating international interns from mid-May to August this year? I came across VPRI while looking for places where research on "domain-specific compilers" would be appropriate. Generic compilers generate binary executables from code. These executables accept arbitrary input and respond with output in any form. A domain-specific compiler restricts the form of input and output to be useful only in a specific domain. My project, titled "Euler's Hammer" [2], is planned to be one such compiler tailored to the graph theoretic algorithms domain. The plan is to generate an executable visualization from a graph algorithm (represented in some DSL). The visualization will allow one to draw arbitrary graphs on its canvas, and visualize the provided algorithm on that graph step-by-step. Currently, the project stands half-complete as "Graphy" [3]. It is being used in a number of institutes across India to teach and learn graph theoretic algorithms. I would really appreciate any information regarding spending this summer as a research intern at VPRI, though not necessarily pursuing the project described above. Thank you for your time, Emaad Ahmed Manzoor. Resume: http://www.eyeshalfclosed.com/emaadmanzoor-vpri-resume.pdf [1]: http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/Goa/ [2]: http://github.com/emaadmanzoor/eulershammer [3]: http://emaadmanzoor.github.com/graphy _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
