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Professors Stephen A. Ward (left), who heads the Domain Specific
Systems Research Group and Hoo-Min Toong, examine a student
project using microcomputers. Professor Ward's interests are in
system architecture and in the integration of programming systems
and languages. Professor Toong's interests are in micro- and mini-
computer hardware and software systems and networks.
The research group is concerned with the automatic programming of
microcomputer systems from application-oriented, higher-level
languages. This work entails a wide spectrum of activities such as
programming language semantics; programming system tools; and
microcomputer system architecture. The purpose of this research is
to decrease the effort and cost of programming computers for
specific applications--a situation that is becoming more severe as
processor costs decrease and programming costs rise.
Professors Ward (left) and Dertouzos attempt to balance a micro-
computer controlled inverted pendulum balancer. Professor
Dertouzos' research interests are in Control Robotics, i.e., the
procedural control of physical processes by automatically
programmed micro-computer control systems.
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