Aaron Keen

CSC 101 - Fundamentals of Computer Science
CSC 121 - Computing for All
CSC 305 - Individual Software Design and Development
CSC 357 - Systems Programming
CSC 430 - Programming Languages
CSC 431 - Compiler Construction
CSC 530 - Languages and Translators

My interests span much of computer science, but I (try to) focus my attention on the study of programming languages. I am interested in improving the tools that programmers rely on. To that end, I study the implementation and theory of programming languages, recently with particular focus on program analysis.

I previously worked on concurrent programming languages (such as JR).

A cross-disciplinary minor to engage student's creativity and engineering skills.

Z. Wood, E. Costello, A. Keen, C. Eckhardt

ASEE PSW 2019 Conference, April 2019
Earthworm: Automated Decomposition Suggestions.

N. Garg and A. W. Keen

18th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, November 2018
Reducing Distributed JR Program Start-up Time via Extending JR's Operation Abstraction.

R. A. Olsson, A. W. Keen, and T. Williamson

Concurrency and Computation -- Practice & Experience, Volume 30, Number 14, July 2018
The Bumblebee: A Robot Controller Board for STEM Education.

L. Hodzic, K. Ly, A. W. Keen, and J. S. Seng

ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference, April 2016
User Accessible Reply Capabilities in Invoking and Servicing Operations.

R. A. Olsson and A. W. Keen

Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Volume 27, Number 17, December 2015
Transformations for Early Reply and Forward Message Passing Mechanisms.

R. A. Olsson, A. W. Keen, and T. Williamson

Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, December 2015
Program Decomposition and Complexity in CS1.

A. Keen and K. Mammen

SIGCSE '15
Building Worlds: Bridging Imperative-First and Object-Oriented Programming in CS1-CS2.

Z. J. Wood and A. Keen

SIGCSE '15
Twill: A Hybrid Microcontroller-FPGA Framework for Parallelizing Single-Threaded C Programs.

D. Gallatin, A. Keen, C. Lupo, and J. Oliver

RAW 2014: 21st Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop, May 19-20, 2014
Generic Operations and Capabilities in the JR Concurrent Programming Language.

H. N. Chan, A. J. Gallagher, A. S. Goundan, Y. L. Yeung, A. W. Keen, and R. A. Olsson.

Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, Volume 35, Number 3, pages 293-305 (October 2009)
A Definition of and Linguistic Support for Partial Quiescence.

B. Y. Man, H. N. Chan, A. J. Gallagher, A. S. Goundan, A. W. Keen and R. A. Olsson.

Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Volume 20, Issue 8, June 2008
Toward a Definition of and Linguistic Support for Partial Quiescence.

B. Y. Man, H. N. Chan, A. J. Gallagher, A. S. Goundan, A. W. Keen and R. A. Olsson.

12th International Euro-Par Conference (Euro-Par 2006), August/September 2006
An Exception Handling Mechanism for the Concurrent Invocation Statement.

H.N. Chan, E. Pauli, B. Y. Man, A. W. Keen, and R. A. Olsson.

11th International Euro-Par Conference (Euro-Par 2005), August 2005
Localized Type-Inference in Python.

B. Cannon and A. W. Keen.

PyCon 2005, March 2005
JR: Flexible Distributed Programming in an extended Java.

A. W. Keen, T. Ge, J. T. Maris, and R. A. Olsson.

Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Volume 26, Issue 3, May 2004
A Comparison of Concurrent Programming and Cooperative Multithreading under Load Balancing Applications.

J. T. Maris, A. W. Keen, T. Ishihara, and R. A. Olsson.

Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Volume 16, Issue 4, 2004 (January 19, 2004)
The JR Programming Language: Concurrent Programming in an Extended Java.

R. A. Olsson and A. W. Keen

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004 ISBN 1-4020-8085-9
An Inter-entry Invocation Selection Mechanism for Concurrent Programming Languages.

A. W. Keen and R. A. Olsson

9th International Euro-Par Conference (Euro-Par 2003), August 2003
A Comparison of Concurrent Programming and Cooperative Multithreading.

A. W. Keen, T. Ishihara, J. T. Maris, T. Li, E. F. Fodor, and R. A. Olsson

Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2003 (January 6, 2003)
Fairness in Shared Invocation Servicing.

R. A. Olsson, G. D. Benson, T. Ge, and A. W. Keen

Computer Languages, Systems & Structures, Volume 28, December 2002
Exception Handling During Asynchronous Method Invocation.

A. W. Keen and R. A. Olsson.

8th International Euro-Par Conference (Euro-Par 2002), August 2002
CoW: A Cooperative Multithreading Web Server.

T. Ishihara, A. W. Keen, J. T. Maris, and R. A. Olsson.

The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA '02), June 2002
Accommodating Evolution in AspectJ.

E. Wohlstadter, A. W. Keen, S. Jackson, and P. Devanbu.

Workshop on Advanced Separation of Concerns, OOPSLA 2001, October 2001
JR: Flexible Distributed Programming in an Extended Java.

A. W. Keen, T. Ge, J. T. Maris, and R. A. Olsson.

International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2001), April 2001

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