The Fox Project: Advanced Development of Systems Software.

Abstract

The long-term objectives of the Carnegie Mellon Fox Project are to improve the design and construction of systems software and to further the development of advanced programming language technology. We use principles and techniques from the mathematical foundations of programming languages, including semantics, type theory, and logic, to design and implement systems software, including operating systems, network protocols, and distributed systems. Much of the implementation work is conducted in the Standard ML (SML) language, a modern functional programming language that provides polymorphism, first-class functions, exception handling, garbage collection, a parameterized module system, static typing, and a formal semantics. This Project involves several faculty members and spans a wide range of research areas, from (1) experimental development of systems software to (2) advanced compiler development to (3) language design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA327358

Entities

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compilers
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Construction
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Semantics
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Software Engineering.