Universidade Federal de Pernambuco ((( aka. "UFPE" )))
((( SPG: Software Productivity Group ( Fall 2010 + Summer 2011 ) )))

((( Curriculum Vitae | Citations | DBLP )))

SHORT-FILM

• I have written, directed, produced, and co-edited a 19-minute award-winning short-film on University teaching:
  • ((( "Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding" )))

  • Google it!

EVENTS

• SLE 2012 ((( program committee member )))
• LDTA 2011 ((( co-chair )))
• LDTA 2010 ((( co-chair )))
• DGS 2009 ((( jury member )))
• ITiCSE 2009 ((( keynote speaker )))
• DGS 2008 ((( jury member )))
• LDTA 2008 ((( program committee member )))
• Koli Calling 2007 ((( keynote speaker )))
• DMLF 2007 ((( keynote speaker )))
• TeaConc 2007 ((( invited speaker )))
• LDTA 2007 ((( program committee member )))

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Programming Languages ((( design, analysis, and implementation )))
• Domain Specific Languages
• Web Technology
• Software Product Lines
• Syntax and Transformation
• Educational Research

TEACHING

Global Software Development	((( ITU, Spring 2012 )))
Interactive Web Services with Java and XML	((( ITU, Spring 2012 )))
Introduction to Scripting, Databases, and System Architecture	((( ITU, Fall 2011 )))
Global Software Development	((( ITU, Spring 2011 )))
Interactive Web Services with Java and XML	((( ITU, Spring 2011 )))
Advanced Models and Programs	((( ITU, Spring 2011 )))
Data-Flow Analysis	((( UFPE, 3*3 hrs, 2010 )))
First-year Project	((( ITU, Spring, 2010 )))
Project-work & Communication	((( ITU, Fall, 2009 )))
Advanced Models & Programs	((( ITU, Spring, 2009 )))
First-year Project	((( ITU, Spring, 2009 )))
Seminar on Teaching & Learning	((( ITU Teachers, Fall, 2008 )))
Project-work & Communication	((( ITU, Fall, 2008 )))
Programming Paradigms	((( AAU, Fall, 2008 (2 weeks) )))
Advanced Models & Programs	((( ITU, Spring, 2008 )))
First-year Project	((( ITU, Spring, 2008 )))
Seminar on Teaching & Learning	((( ITU Faculty, Spring, 2008 )))
Project-work & Communication	((( ITU, Fall, 2007 )))
Programming Paradigms	((( AAU, Fall, 2007 (2 weeks) )))
Concurrency	((( DAIMI, Spring, 2007 (Q3) )))
Programming Paradigms	((( AAU, Fall, 2006 (2 weeks) )))
Semantics	((( DAIMI, Fall, 2006 (Q1) )))
Programming Languages	((( DAIMI, Spring, 2006 (Q2) )))
University Studies in Education	((( DAIMI Faculty, Fall, 2006 (3 days) )))
Concurrency	((( DAIMI, Spring, 2006 (Q3) )))
Semantics	((( DAIMI, Fall, 2005 (Q1) )))
Macro Seminar	((( DAIMI, Spring, 2005 (Q4) )))
Concurrency	((( DAIMI, Spring, 2005 (Q3) )))
Concurrency	((( EVU, Fall, 2004 (Q2) )))
Web Technology	((( EVU, Fall, 2004 (Q1) )))
Concurrency	((( DAIMI, Spring, 2004 (Q3+Q4) )))
Macro Languages	((( DAIMI, Spring, 2002 (2 weeks) )))

PROJECTS

The EMERGO project	((( A Tool for Improving Maintainability of Preprocessor-Based SPLs )))
The DFA-4-SPL project	((( Static Analysis of SPLs )))
The WebSelF project	((( A Web Scraping Framework )))
The LifeFlow project	((( Programmable Interactive Processes )))
The reg-exp-rec project	((( Typed and Unambiguous Pattern Matching on Strings using Regular Expressions )))
The banana algebra project	((( Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Bananas )))
The bisimulation game game project	((( The Bisimulation Game Game (and CCS Simulator) )))
The grambiguity project	((( Analyzing Ambiguity of Context-Free Grammars )))
The xsugar project	((( Reversible transformation between XML and alternative syntax )))
The metafront project	((( Syntactic transformation between languages )))
The bigwig project	((( Domain-specific language for programming web services )))
The runwig project	((( Runtime System for Interactive Web Services )))
The powerforms project	((( Domain-specific language for form input validation )))

THESES

• "Domain Specific Languages for Interactive Web Services"
          ((( Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Aarhus (November 7, 2002) )))
• "Synthesizing Safety Controllers for Interactive Web Services"
          ((( Master's Thesis, University of Aarhus (December 20, 1998) )))

BOOKS

• "Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications (LDTA 2011)" ((( bibtex )))
           (( Claus Brabrand and Eric Van Wyk (Eds.), March 2011 )))
• "Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications (LDTA 2010)" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Claus Brabrand and Pierre-Etienne Moreau (Eds.), March 2010 )))

KEYNOTE/INVITED PAPERS

• "Analyzing CS Competencies using The SOLO Taxonomy" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Keynote abstract for Keynote talk for ITiCSE'09 )))
• "Constructive Alignment and The SOLO Taxonomy: A Comparative Study of University Competences in Computer Science vs. Mathematics" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Invited paper for Keynote talk for Koli Calling'07 )))
          ((( Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol 88. )))
• "Constructive Alignment for Teaching Model-Based Design for Concurrency" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Invited paper for Invited talk for TeaConc'07 )))

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• "Analyzing Ambiguity of Context-Free Grammars" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Science of Computer Programming, Vol. 75(3), Elsevier, 2010 )))
• "Using the SOLO Taxonomy to Analyze Competence Progression of University Science Curricula" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Higher Education, Vol. 58(4), Springer, 2009 )))
• "Constructive Alignment for Teaching Model-Based Design for Concurrency" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, Vol. 1(1), Springer-Verlag, 2008 )))
• "Dual Syntax for XML Languages" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Information Systems, Vol. 33(4), Elsevier, 2008 )))
• "The metafront System: Safe and Extensible Parsing and Transformation" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Science of Compute Programming, Vol. 68(1), Elsevier, 2007 )))
• "Language-Based Caching of Dynamically Generated HTML" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( World Wide Web, Vol. 5(4), Springer, 2002 )))
• "The <bigwig> Project" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Transactions on Internet Technologies, Vol. 2(2), ACM, 2002 )))
• "PowerForms: Declarative Client-side Form Field Validation" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( World Wide Web, Vol. 3(4), Kluwer, 2000 )))
• "A Runtime System for Interactive Web Services" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( Computer Networks, Vol. 31(11-16), Elsevier, 1999 )))

REFEREED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS

• "WebSelF: A Web Scraping Framework"
          ((( ICWE 2012, Berlin, Germany, 2012 )))
• "Emergo: A Tool for Improving Maintainability of Preprocessor-based Product Lines" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( AOSD Demos 2012, Potsdam, Germany, 2012 )))
• "Intraprocedural Dataflow Analysis for Software Product Lines" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( AOSD 2012, Potsdam, Germany, 2012 )))
• "On the Impact of Feature Dependencies when Maintaining Preprocessor-based Software Product Lines" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( GPCE 2011, Portland, OR, USA, 2011 )))
• "A Tool for Improving Maintainability of Preprocessor-based Product Lines" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( CBSoft 2011, São Paulo, Brazil, 2011 )))
• "Typed and Unambiguous Pattern Matching on Strings using Regular Expressions" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( PPDP 2010, Hagenberg, Austria, 2010 )))
• "Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( LDTA'09, York, England, 2009 )))
• "Analyzing Ambiguity of Context-Free Grammars" (journal version: here) ((( bibtex )))
          ((( CIAA'07, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007 )))
• "Dual Syntax for XML Languages" (journal version: here) ((( bibtex )))
          ((( DBPL'05, Trondheim, Norway, 2005 )))
• "The metafront System: Extensible Parsing and Transformation" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( LDTA'03, Warsaw, Poland, 2003 )))
• "Growing Languages with Metamorphic Syntax Macros" ((( bibtex )))
           ((( PEPM'02, Portland, OR, USA, 2002 )))
• "Static Validation of Dynamically Generated HTML" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( PASTE'01, Snowbird, UT, USA, 2001 )))
• "A Runtime System for Interactive Web Services" ((( bibtex )))
          ((( WWW8, Toronto, Canada, 1999 )))

OTHER PAPERS

• "Masterstuderende er en spændende udfordring" ((( short article about teaching (in Danish) )))
          ((( "IT-Vest Nyt" online magazine (January 16, 2005) )))
• "Call/C: A Domain Specific Language for Robust Internet Telephony Services"
          ((( LaBRI Research Report, Université Bordeaux I, France, 2003 )))
• "<bigwig> Reference Manual" ((( online )))
          ((( BRICS Notes Series NS-00-4, 2000 )))
• "<bigwig> Tutorial" ((( online )))
          ((( BRICS Notes Series NS-00-5, 2000 )))

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• "Intraprocedural Dataflow Analysis for Software Product Lines"
          ((( AOSD 2012, Berlin, Germany (March 29, 2012) )))
• "Banana Algebra: Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations"
          ((( LDTA'09, York, England (March 28, 2009) )))
• "Analyzing Ambiguity of Context-Free Grammars"
          ((( CIAA'07, Prague, Czech Republic (July 18, 2007) )))
• "xsugar: Dual Syntax for XML Languages"
          ((( DBPL'05, Trondheim, Norway (August 28, 2005) )))
• "The metafront System: Extensible Parsing and Transformation"
          ((( LDTA'03, Warsaw, Poland (April 6, 2003) )))
• "Growing Languages with Metamorphic Syntax Macros"
          ((( PEPM'02, Portland, OR, USA (January 14, 2002) )))
• "Static Validation of Dynamically Generated HTML"
          ((( PASTE'01, Snowbird, UT, USA (June 18, 2001) )))
• "A Runtime System for Interactive Web Services"
          ((( WWW8, Toronto, Canada (May 12, 1999) )))

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (COMPUTER SCIENCE)

• "Pattern Matching on Strings using Regular Expressions"
          ((( Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil (July 14, 2010) )))
• "Pattern Matching on Strings using Regular Expressions"
          ((( COPLAS Seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark (May 11, 2010) )))
• "Banana Algebra: Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations"
          ((( COPLAS Seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark (May 11, 2010) )))
• "Pattern Matching on Strings using Regular Expressions"
          ((( FIRST Retreat, Bautahøj, Denmark (April 16, 2010) )))
• "Banana Algebra: Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations"
          ((( Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil (December 30, 2009) )))
• "Banana Algebra: Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations"
          ((( Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (November 23, 2009) )))
• "Banana Algebra: Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations"
          ((( University of Sussex, Brighton, England (October 23, 2009) )))
• "Banana Algebra: Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations"
          ((( Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland (September 21, 2009) )))
• "Banana Algebra: Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations"
          ((( Bergen University, Bergen, Norway (September 18, 2009) )))
• "Banana Algebra: Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations"
          ((( CWI, Amsterdam, Holland (August 19, 2009) )))
• "Analyzing Ambiguity of Context-Free Grammars"
          ((( CWI, Amsterdam, Holland (August 19, 2009) )))
• "Banana Algebra: Syntactic Language Extension via an Algebra of Languages and Transformations"
          ((( COPLAS Seminar, DIKU (South), Copenhagen University, Denmark (April 2, 2009) )))
• "Analyzing Ambiguity of Context-Free Grammars"
          ((( IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (July 9, 2007) )))
• "Analyzing Ambiguity of Context-Free Grammars"
          ((( University of Aalborg, Denmark (December 19, 2006) )))
• "Analyzing Ambiguity of Context-Free Grammars"
          ((( Technische Fakultät, University of Bielefeld, Germany (April 5, 2006) )))
• "xsugar: Dual Syntax for XML Languages"
          ((( University of Tokyo (Todai), Japan (July 15, 2005) )))
• "xsugar: Reversible Stylesheets"
          ((( CISS, University of Aalborg, Denmark (April 13, 2005) )))
• "xsugar: Reversible Stylesheets"
          ((( COPLAS Seminar, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark (March 17, 2005) )))
• "xsugar: Reversible Stylesheets"
          ((( π-λ Seminar, University of Aarhus, Denmark (November 29, 2004) )))
• "Approximating Context-Free Grammar Ambiguity"
          ((( π-λ Seminar, University of Aarhus, Denmark (November 5, 2004) )))
• "Call/C: A Domain Specific Language for Robust Internet Telephony Services"
          ((( CorSS Meeting, ENSEIRB, Bordeaux, France (November 28, 2003) )))
• "Domain Specific Languages for Interactive Web Services"
          ((( Net.Object Days 2003, Erfurt, Germany (September 22, 2003) )))
• "Flexible, Safe, and Efficient Dynamic Generation of XML"
          ((( LaBRI / INRIA, Bordeaux, France (November 28, 2002) )))
• "Macro Languages and Metamorphic Syntax Macros"
          ((( IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (November 22, 2002) )))
• "Macro Languages"
          ((( For "AoPL" course, University of Aarhus, Denmark (May 14, 2002) )))
• "Flexible, Safe, and Efficient Dynamic Generation of HTML"
          ((( University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (August 22, 2001) )))
• "Flexible, Safe, and Efficient Dynamic Generation of HTML"
          ((( IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY, USA (July 13, 2001) )))
• "Metamorphic Syntax Macros"
          ((( Qualification exam, University of Aarhus, Denmark (January 25, 2001) )))
• "<bigwig>--A Language for Developing Interactive Web Services"
          ((( Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA (March 20, 2000) )))
• "<bigwig>--A Language for Developing Interactive Web Services"
          ((( Datalogforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark (January 18, 2000) )))
• "<bigwig>--A Language for Developing Interactive Web Services"
          ((( Datalogforeningen, Aarhus, Denmark (December 7, 1999) )))

INVITED PRESENTATIONS (EDUCATIONAL STUDIES)

• "How to make sure your students learn what you want them to"
          ((( Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil (August 03, 2010) )))
• "How to Improve the Quality of Teaching & Learning"
          ((( Dies Academicus 2010, University of Bielefeld, Germany (May 19, 2010) )))
• "Presentations from seminar on Teaching/Learning Activities"
          ((( IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (November 20, 2009) )))
• "How to make sure students learn what we want them to"
          ((( Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland (September 22, 2009) )))
• "Analyzing CS Competencies using The SOLO Taxonomy
          ((( Keynote address, ITiCSE'09, Paris, France (July 6, 2009) )))
• "Seminar on Teaching & Learning"
          ((( One-day seminar for entire ITU teaching staff, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Oct 31, 2008) )))
• "Seminar on Teaching & Learning"
          ((( One-day seminar for entire ITU teaching staff, DGI-Byen, Copenhagen, Denmark (May 28, 2008) )))
• "Getting Students to Work ...on Projects ...in Groups"
          ((( Short presentation at the FIRST Ph.D. School Retreat, Birker d, Denmark (April 29, 2008) )))
• "Personality Types for Working in Groups"
          ((( Short presentation at the FIRST Ph.D. School Retreat, Birker d, Denmark (April 28, 2008) )))
• "Constructive Alignment for Teaching Computer Science"
          ((( Keynote address, Koli Calling 2007, Koli National Park, Finland (November 16, 2007) )))
• "Constructive Alignment"
          ((( Keynote for DMLF'07, Vejle, Denmark (September 20, 2007) )))
• "Constructive Alignment for Teaching Model-Based Design for Concurrency"
          ((( 2-hour Invited talk for TeaConc'07, Siedlce, Poland (June 25, 2007) )))
• "On the Use of Video and Humour in Teaching"
          ((( Video Roadshop, University of Aarhus (June 07, 2007) )))
• "Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding"
          ((( Seminar on Alignment, Institute of Information and Media Studies (May 14, 2007) )))
• "Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding"
          ((( Seminar on Alignment, Engineering College of Aarhus (April 11, 2007) )))
• "Implementation af den nye karakterskala"
          ((( Seminar, Faculty of Science, University of Southern Denmark (February 21, 2007) )))
• "Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding"
          ((( Seminar on Alignment, Copenhagen Business School (January 30, 2007) )))
• "Den nye karakterskala: Implementation på NAT/AU"
          ((( Seminar, for all teachers at the Faculty of Science, Uni. of Aarhus (January 24, 2007) )))
• "Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding"
          ((( Seminar, University of Aalborg, Denmark (December 19, 2006) )))
• "The Theory of Didactic Situations"
          ((( 3-day DAIMI teaching seminar, Sandbjerg, Denmark (August 24, 2006) )))
• "Introduction to University Didactics (University Studies in Education)"
          ((( OOSS Retreat, Molslaboratoriet, Denmark (February 25, 2006) )))
• "Introduction to University Didactics (University Studies in Education)"
          ((( Special Teaching Seminar, DAIMI, University of Aarhus, Denmark (November 25, 2005) )))
• "Introduction to University Didactics (University Studies in Education)"
          ((( Special Teaching Seminar, DAIMI, University of Aarhus, Denmark (November 4, 2005) )))
• "Introduction to University Didactics; what students do when we teach"
          ((( FIRST/BRICS Ph.D. Schools' Annual Retreat, Sandbjerg, Denmark (October 25, 2005) )))

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

• "Menneskesprog vs. Computersprog"
          ((( For the Night of Culture, Copenhagen, Denmark (October 9, 2009) )))
• "An Introduction to Wine Tasting"
          ((( For the Teaching at the University Seminar, Sandbjerg, Denmark (August 10, 2005) )))
• "An Introduction to Wine Tasting"
          ((( For the French Week at the International Student Center (ISC), Denmark (April 13, 2005) )))
• "Artificial (Programming) Languages vs. Natural Languages"
          ((( For Course on Linguistic Typology, Department of Linguistics, University of Aarhus, Denmark (December 2, 2004) )))
• "Vinsmagning: Initiation à la Dégustation du Vin" (in Danish)
          ((( Halian XX, Denmark (November 22, 2003) )))

AWARDS

• "Best Tool Award" (September 30, 2011)
  "A Tool for Improving Maintainability of Preprocessor-based Product Lines" ((( bibtex )))
  ((( CBSoft 2011, São Paulo, Brazil, 2011 )))
• "Det Gyldne Snit 2006" (November 13, 2006)
  "Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding" ((( bibtex )))
  ((( The Golden Ratio Award for best educational film of the year )))

TV, FILM, & VIDEO

		"Tvetydighed: Om Mennesker og Computere" ((( TV: Danskernes Akademi, DR2 (March 23, 2011) ))) TV: Tvetydighed ((( 24 min (online video) )))
		"Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding" ((( Award-winning short-film (2006) ))) Film: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~brabrand/short-film/ ((( 19 min short-film ) )))
		"Flexible, Safe, and Efficient Dynamic Generation of HTML" ((( IBM Research, T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA (July 13, 2001) ))) Video: bigwig-ibm.mpg ((( 62 min, 164 MB (MPG format) )))
		"<bigwig> - A Programming Language for Developing Interactive Web Services" ((( Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA (March 20, 2000) ))) Video: bigwig-ms.asf ((( 72 min, 166 MB (ASF format) )))

CONFERENCES ATTENDED

• "Aspects of Software Development" ( AOSD'12 )
  ((( Berlin, Germany (March 25 - March 30, 2012) )))
• "European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software" ( ETAPS'11 / LDTA'11 )
  ((( Saarbrücken, Germany (March 26 - April 03, 2011) )))
• "European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software" ( ETAPS'10 / LDTA'10 )
  ((( Paphos, Cyprus (March 20 - 28, 2010) )))
• "Motivating Learners through Creative Approaches to Assessment" ( LIN 2009 )
  ((( Athlone, Ireland (October 15, 2009) )))
• "Innovation and Techn logy in Computing Science Education 2009" ( ITiCSE'09 )
  ((( Paris, France (July 03 - 08, 2009) )))
• "Dansk Universitetpædagogisk Netværk Konference 2009" ( DUN'09 )
  ((( Fredericia, Denmark (May 28 - 29, 2009) )))
• "European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software" ( ETAPS'09 / LDTA'09 )
  ((( York, England (March 22 - 29, 2009) )))
• "Scandinavian Pedagogy of Programming Network 2008" ( SPoP'08 )
  ((( IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (September 24, 2008) )))
• "Koli Calling 2007: Conference on Computing Education Research" ( Koli'07 )
  ((( Koli National Park, Finland (November 16 - 18, 2007) )))
• "12th Int'l Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata" ( CIAA'07 )
  ((( Prague, Czech Republic (July 16 - 18, 2007) )))
• "Workshop on Teaching Concurrency" ( TeaConc'07 / ATPN'07 )
  ((( Siedlce, Poland (June 25 - 29, 2007) )))
• "Video Roadshop"
  ((( University of Aarhus, Denmark (June 07, 2007) )))
• "Dansk Universitetpædagogisk Netværk Konference 2007" ( DUN'07 )
  ((( Aalborg, Denmark (June 01, 2007) )))
• "First Nordic Workshop on Phenomenography in Computing Education Research" ( NoPhICER'07 )
  ((( Uppsala, Sweden (May 30 - 31, 2007) )))
• "Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education" ( SIGCSE'07 )
  ((( Cincinnati, OH, USA (March 07 - 11, 2007) )))
• "Dansk Universitetpædagogisk Netværk Konference 2006" ( DUN'06 )
  ((( Aarhus, Denmark (May 03 - 04, 2006) )))
• "Symposium on Database Programming Languages" ( VLDB'05 / DBPL'05 )
  ((( Trondheim, Norway (August 28 - 29, 2005) )))
• "Software Testing; Trends and Visions"
  ((( CISS, Aalborg, Denmark (December 01, 2004) )))
• "Net.Object Days"
  ((( Erfurt, Germany (September 27 - 30, 2003) )))
• "Microsoft Research Faculty Summit"
  ((( Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England (July, 200 ) )))
• "European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software" ( ETAPS'03 / LDTA'03 )
  ((( Warsaw, Poland (April 05 - 13, 2003) )))
• "Crash Course on Software and Web Engeneering in the Microsoft .NET Environment"
  ((( Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England (March 25 - 28, 2003) )))
• "Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages" ( POPL'02 / PEPM'02 )
  ((( Portland, Oregon, USA (January 16 - 18, 2002) )))
• "Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation" ( PLDI'01 / PASTE'01 )
  ((( Snowbird, Utah, USA (June 20 - 22, 2001) )))
• "European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software" ( ETAPS'00 )
  ((( Berlin, Germany (March 27 - April 02, 2000) )))
• "The Eighth International World Wide Web Conference" ( WWW8 )
  ((( Toronto, Ontario, Canada (May 11 - 14, 1999) )))

NUMBERS

• My "Erdõs Number" is 4 (due to the following co-author path):
  • ((( Paul Erdõs -1-> Shmuel Zaks -2-> Dexter Kozen -3-> Michael Schwartzbach -4-> Claus Brabrand )))

• My "Bacon Number" is 4 (due to the following co-actor path):
  • ((( Kevin Bacon -1-> Stream Gardner -2-> Mads Koudal -3-> Richard Raskin -4-> Claus Brabrand )))

• Curiously, I am the 12^th Ph.D.-generation descendant of Carl Friedrich Gauss:
  • ((( Carl Friedrich Gauss -1-> Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel -2-> Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk -3-> Ernst Eduard Kummer -4-> Carl David Tolmé Runge -5-> Max Born -6-> Viktor Frederick Weisskopf -7-> Murray Gell-Mann -8-> Sidney Richard Coleman -9-> Leonard Emanuel Parker -10-> Prakash Panangaden -11-> Michael I. Schwartzbach -12-> Claus Brabrand )))

IMPACT

• My "H-number" is 11 (according to Google Scholar):
  

  120 ( bigwig )

  58 ( macros )

  58 ( validation )

  50 ( powerforms )

  42 = 26+16 ( ambiguity )

  40 = 26+14 ( xsugar )

  37 = 27+10 ( metafront )

  25 ( runtime )

  19 ( progression )

  17 ( caching )

  13 = 11+2 ( teaconc )

  11 ( synthesizing )

• My list of publications: 23 (according to DBLP (does not count educational research papers) )

• My number of citations: 536 (according to Google Scholar)

• My Google Scholar Homepage

PERSONAL INTERESTS

• Sports ((( soccer, long-distance running, working out, ... )))
• Photography ((( image gallery )))
• Painting
• Languages and linguistics
• Culture ((( psychology, philosophy, sociology, evolution, ... )))
• Cooking ((( foreign cuisine )))
• Science
• Travelling ((( World map , Europe map , USA states , Brazil states )))

LANGUAGES

Dansk	((( native )))
English	((( fluent )))
Français	((( fluent )))
Português	((( fluent )))
Italiano	((( intermediate )))
Español	((( intermediate )))
Deutsch	((( basic conversation level )))
Norsk	((( passive: understood/read )))
Svenska	((( passive: understood/read )))
	((( ultra basics )))
Wolof	((( ultra basics )))

CONTACT INFORMATION

Claus Brabrand	Phone (+45) 72 18 50 76
IT-University of Copenhagen	Fax: (+45) 72 18 50 01
Rued Langgaards Vej 7	Office: 4C10
DK-2300 København S	Email: brabrand@itu.dk
Denmark	Web: http://www.itu.dk/people/brabrand/

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