Projects in 1999

• August-October, 1999 - I was involved with a joint project between Loyola Law school and Caltech that investigated the collision between proprietary, closed corporations (read: Microsoft) and the world of Open Software. I and Linus Torvalds were the expert witnesses for the "Open" side. With an excellent law student from Loyola named Lena Smith, and mentored by the legendary Don Baker, We drafted a series of briefs on the domain targeting legal professionals. We had a real court battle at Caltech and the result of the trial and more can be found on the program web site.
• August, 1999 - Lucky me, I get to have surgery on my knee again on September 13. I expect that I won't be in top-form (mentally or physically) for a few weeks.
• May, 1999 - I've released my first (sourceless) public version of IDebug 0.9.
• April, 1999 - I didn't get anything done in April because I had a knee injury and had to have surgery. I was out of work for nearly a month. This makes me sad. I should be able to drive again by June, I hope. Basketball will take a while longer...
• March, 1999 Leading to a Kind Description Language: Thoughts on Component Specification This paper briefly summarizes the different ways one can specify a component and summarizes a new innovative specification language called KDL.
• February, 1999 IDebug: An Advanced Debugging Framework for Java has been published as a CS technical report. See the IDebug brief for a quick summary of this work.
• February, 1999 JPP: A Java Pre-Processor has been published as a Caltech CS technical report.
• February, 1999 A New Construct for Systems Modeling and Theory: The Kind has been published as a CS technical report.
• January, 1999 A Theory and Architecture for Open Collaborative Reuse (bulletin board slides).
• January 12, 1999 I gave the first lunchbunch of the quarter on Computer Security.
• January, 1999 Jiki - an Open Source open web architecture is now available.