Sunday, December 21, 2008

How to spend five years

So I just handed in this tiny thing, called a dissertation.

I must admit - it's a nice sensation. It goes a long way towards bringing closure to the ... hmmm ... last ... five years of my life. Five years and bit, in fact. Dammit, that's a long time. I'm getting old.

What did I do(?!), you eagerly shout... without having read the bloody thing? Well, ok - right now my passing-on-the-stairway-version is the following:

I worked with a framework (bigraphs) for domain-specific programming languages (DSLs). I developed some fundamental theory and algorithms that enabled us to implement a prototype tool to play around with such languages. Oh yeah, and then I developed a DSL, the snappily named C calculus (C for cell), that biochemists can use to describe and experiment with cells and proteins in silico. Check out this poster, for some nice pictures:

3 comments:

Ebbe said...

That's it?! I want some of my tax money back. Most of it. ;-)

Unknown said...

Ah. So ye seek more knowledge? To be continued...

Ebbe said...

Knowledge is unpopular these days so I'd rather have an iPod with the hit I Kissed a Girl by Katie Perry on it.