William G. Griswold is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

. His research is in software engineering

Software engineering

Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...

; he is best known for his works on aspect-oriented programming

Aspect-oriented programming

In computing, aspect-oriented programming is a programming paradigm which aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns...

 using AspectJ

AspectJ

AspectJ is an aspect-oriented extension created at PARC for the Java programming language. It is available in Eclipse Foundation open-source projects, both stand-alone and integrated into Eclipse. AspectJ has become the widely-used de-facto standard for AOP by emphasizing simplicity and usability...

 and on finding invariants of programs

Invariant (computer science)

In computer science, a predicate is called an invariant to a sequence of operations provided that: if the predicate is true before starting the sequence, then it is true at the end of the sequence.-Use:...

 to support software evolution

Software evolution

Software evolution is the term used in software engineering to refer to the process of developing software initially, then repeatedly updating it for various reasons.-General introduction:...

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Griswold received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

, and joined the UCSD faculty in 1991. He has been the chair of ACM SIGSOFT, co-program chair of the 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering

International Conference on Software Engineering

The International Conference on Software Engineering , is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. The first ICSE conference was in 1975 in Washington DC.-List of Conferences:Past and future ICSE conferences include:...

, and program chair of the 2002 ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering.

He is the son of Ralph Griswold

Ralph Griswold

Ralph E. Griswold was a computer scientist known for his research into high-level programming languages and symbolic computation. His language credits include the string processing language SNOBOL, SL5, and Icon.He attended Stanford University, receiving a bachelor's degree in physics, then an...

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External links

• Home page at UCSD