Engineering with Components: The Last Straw for Software?

Professor George Heineman
WPI Computer Science Department

Friday, September 8, 2000
11 a.m.
Fuller Labs 320

Abstract

Much of Computer Science is concerned with designing things -- programs, architecture, algorithms, even proofs can be seen in that light. The foundation of engineering disciplines such as electrical or mechanical engineering is design. Many design activities in the "real world" are performed in a `social setting', often as a group activity. A recent and growing area of research is the study of how people actually perform design. This provides data about what sort of tools, and interfaces to them, people actually need. For software, designing using components is being studied. A portion of this presentation about designing with components will concentrate on a Strawman exercise.

Host

Prof. David Brown

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