Primary Info: Professor Holman 236 (609) 771-2482 http://www.tcnj.edu/~neff	Education: M.S.E. - Computer Info. Sys. - University of Pennsylvannia Ph.D. - Statistics - Rutgers University M.S. - Mathematics - Stanford University B.S. - Mathematics - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Research Interests: Programming Language Implementation Functional Programming Languages Object-Oriented Programming Languages Computer Science Education

Research projects: General Overview - Most of my projects are in the areas of programming languages and computer science education. One area is the development of software tools for a new compiler course focusing on object oriented languages. The minimum prerequisite for this is the ability to write very clean Java programs. Many of the projects have a theoretical component in areas like grammars or type systems. Others involve virtual machines and graphics. Other projects involve just-in-time-compilation, optimizing native code for modern architectures, classic native code optimization, bottom-up parsing, garbage collection, tree automata, etc. Many of these, but not all, assume a theoretical background including some work with context-free grammars. I'm also thinking about a paper relating dynamic programming to memoization and dataflow analysis. This might go nowhere, or it might turn out to be publishable. My requirements for student projects: short biweekly progress reports, carefully written term paper, and often working code. Generally, people get a good grade if they do something well, even if it was not the exact original goal of the project.