Gregor Kiczales is a professor

Professor

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 of computer science at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

 in Canada

Canada

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. His best known work is 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...

 and the 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...

 extension for Java

Java (programming language)

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 at Xerox PARC

Xerox PARC

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. He has also contributed to the design of the Common Lisp Object System, and is the author of the book The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol is a 1991 book by Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivieres, and Daniel G. Bobrow on metaobject protocol...

, along with Jim Des Rivieres and Daniel G. Bobrow

Daniel G. Bobrow

Daniel Gureasko Bobrow is a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Palo Alto Research Center, and is amongst other things known for creating an oft-cited artificial intelligence program STUDENT, with which he earned his PhD....

.

In 2002, Kiczales co-founded Intentional Software

Intentional Software

Intentional Software is a software company founded by Charles Simonyi. It focuses on developing software tools that pass on control over functionality to the users, following the principles of intentional programming, a recent software movement....

 with Charles Simonyi

Charles Simonyi

Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship Office suite of applications. He now heads his own company, Intentional Software, with the aim of developing and marketing his...

, but no longer appears to have any affiliation with that company.

External links

• Gregor Kiczales' homepage