Dr.
Frank
Tip
has
joined
the
Cheriton
School
as
its
first
Cheriton
Chair
in
Software
Systems,
a
position
funded
by
the
School's
naming
endowment.
Prof.
Tip
has
spent
his
career
at
IBM's
T.J.
Watson
Research
Center,
here
he
has
managed
the
Program
Analysis
and
Transformation
group
since
2003.
Widely
cited
as
an
expert
in
programming
languages
and
software
engineering,
Tip
is
the
author
of
over
50
scientific
papers.
He
has
served
on
the
technical
program
committee
for
all
of
the
major
conferences
in
his
field,
and
is
currently
Chairman
of
Working
Group
2.4
(Software
Implementation
Technology)
of
the
International
Federation
for
Information
Processing.
He
was
named
a
Distinguished
Scientist
by
the
Association
for
Computing
Machinery
in
2008,
and
received
IBM's
Outstanding
Innovation
Award
in
2005.
Several
of
his
papers
have
been
named
as
Best
Paper
or
Distinguished
Paper
at
major
conferences,
and
he
is
listed
as
inventor
on
a
dozen
US
patents.
While
he
has
not
previously
had
full-time
employment
in
academia,
he
has
been
an
Adjunct
Professor
at
New
York
University
and
was
previously
a
Visiting
Researcher
at
Oxford
University
in
2010-2011.
Thursday, November 22, 2012