Matthew Hammer Hello, my name is Matthew Hammer. As of September 2012, I am a postdoc researcher working with Mike Hicks and the PLUM group at the University of Maryland (in College Park, MD). I am interested in the theory, design and implementation of programming languages. Programming languages interest me because they give rise to communication mediums between humans and computers, allowing them to share their intentions, knowledge and experience with one another. Short biography Previously, I was a Ph.D. student of Umut Acar at the University of Chicago, as well as a visiting student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Kaiserslautern, Germany, where I lived for several years. I got my B.S. in 2005 from the University of Wisconsin with a major and honors in computer science. I've spent summers at IBM Research in Almaden and Intel Research in Santa Clara.

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CEAL: A C-based language for self-adjusting computation

My Ph.D. dissertation project focuses mainly on CEAL, a C-based language for self-adjusting computation. Self-adjusting computation is a (computer programming) language-based technique for systematically describing programs that consume and produce dynamically-changing data.

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Publications

( See also: DBLP₁, DBLP₂, Google Scholar )

• Self-Adjusting Machines
  Matthew A. Hammer.
  Ph.D dissertation.
  University of Chicago. December 2012.
• Self-Adjusting Stack Machines
  Matthew A. Hammer, Georg Neis, Yan Chen and Umut A. Acar
  Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2011).
  Portland, Oregon USA. October 2011.
• Implicit Self-Adjusting Computation for Purely Functional Programs
  Yan Chen, Joshua Dunfield, Matthew A. Hammer and Umut A. Acar
  International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP'11).
  Tokyo, Japan. September 2011
• CEAL: A C-Based Language for Self-Adjusting Computation
  Matthew A. Hammer, Umut A. Acar and Yan Chen.
  Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2009).
  Dublin, Ireland. June 2009.
• Memory Management for Self-Adjusting Computation
  Matthew A. Hammer and Umut A. Acar.
  International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2008).
  Tuscon, Arizona. June 2008.
• A Proposal for Parallel Self-Adjusting Computation (ps.gz)
  Matthew Hammer, Umut A. Acar, Mohan Rajagopalan, Anwar Ghuloum
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming (DAMP 2007).
  Nice, France. January 2007.
  
• Running Quake II on a grid
  G. Deen, M. Hammer, J. Bethencourt, I. Eiron, J. Thomas, and J. H. Kaufman.
  IBM Systems Journal 2006 [ Web | PDF ].
  
  Some press: [ Technology Review | eWeek | Slashdot₁ | Slashdot₂ ]

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Contact

email:

hammer at umd dot cs dot edu