Featherweight Musings

I'm a research engineer at Mozilla working on the Rust compiler. I have history with Firefox layout and graphics, and programming language theory and type systems (mostly of the OO, Featherweight flavour, thus the title of the blog). http://www.ncameron.org @nick_r_cameron

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Papers

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It's a been a god few months for paper publishing (and I have been a little lax about reporting on it): "Encoding Ownership types i...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Impact

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A blog posting day today. This one has been swirling in my mind for a while actually. Robert O'callahan (Mozilla) gave a talk at Vic rec...
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UK elections - postscript

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So, a dissapointing showing for the lib-dems after predictions of greatness. But a tory-lib-dem coaliation is probably the best result that ...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

UK Elections

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Bit of a departure from the usual, but it's election time, so why not? Who to vote for - no-one looks conviincing, labour are tired and ...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

You wait months for a good seminar...

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...and then three come along at once! Following Monday's seminar Robert was scheduled to talk again on tuesday, this time at the NZCSRSC...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Who would have thought...

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...that a talk about standards would be interesting? But it was! Robert O'Callahan (Mozilla) just gave a talk about web standards. Stand...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

VM talks and assembly language

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Google are currently developing two (at least only two are public) VMs : Dalvik and V8. Dalvik is a Java VM (but not a " JVM " ...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

A rant - empirical analysis

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Having typed up my ECOOP notes and gone through the proceedings a bit, I have actually got a little bit angry about the state of affairs co...
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ECOOP day 3

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Tobias gave the first technical talk and was surprisingly bright-eyed; apparently that's what being Swedish does for you. The paper is ...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

ECOOP day 2

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Today's invited talk was by Dave Ungar and it felt more like a self-help tutorial than an academic talk. In fact all three of the talks ...
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