James Cordy
Computer Scientist
1950 –
Who is James Cordy?
James Reginald Cordy is a Canadian computer scientist and educator who is a Professor in the School of Computing at Queen's University. As a researcher he is currently active in the fields of source code analysis and manipulation, software reverse and re-engineering, and pattern analysis and machine intelligence. He has a long record of previous work in programming languages, compiler technology, and software architecture.
He is currently best known for his work on the TXL source transformation language, a parser-based framework and functional programming language designed to support software analysis and transformation tasks originally developed with M.Sc. student Charles Halpern-Hamu in 1985 as a tool for experimenting with programming language design. His recent work on the NICAD clone detector with Ph.D. student Chanchal Roy, the Recognition Strategy Language with Ph.D. student Richard Zanibbi and Dorothea Blostein, and the Cerno lightweight natural language understanding system with John Mylopoulos and others at the University of Trento is based on TXL.
The 1995 paper A Syntactic Theory of Software Architecture with Ph.D. student Thomas R.
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- Born
- Jan 2, 1950
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- University of Toronto
- Victoria University, Toronto
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on July 23, 2013
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