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Dr. Michael Van De Vanter
Senior Staff Engineer
Maxine Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories


16 Network Circle
umpk16-158
Menlo Park, CA 94025


Michael Van De Vanter is a member of the Maxine project, building developer tools for a next generation Java Virtual Machine. He was previously a member of the Core Productivity Team working on Sun's DARPA funded supercomputer project, and before that Principal Investigator of the Sun Labs Jackpot Project, whose technology has now been transferred to NetBeans.

Dr. Van De Vanter's research interests include advanced program editing systems, High Performance Computing, software development methodologies, source code analysis for developer tools, source code management and configuration control, and the human factors of software development.

Education:

* PhD Computer Science 1992, U.C. Berkeley, * MS Computer Science 1975, M.I.T., * BS Mathematics 1970, Stanford University

More Information, Publications

Technical Reports

  • Productive Petascale Computing: Requirements, Hardware, and Software
    By: Michael Van De Vanter, Alan Wood, Chris Vick, Stuart Faulk, Susan Squires and Lawrence G. Votta Jr.
    Report Number: TR-2009-183
    Jul 9, 2009

    Latest Sun Patents

  • Undo/redo technique for token-oriented representation of program code
    (Jun 10, 2008)
  • Method and apparatus for accessing related computer objects
    (Jan 2, 2007)
  • Interactive software engineering tool with support for embedded lexical contexts
    (Oct 24, 2006)
  • Language-sensitive whitespace adjustment in a software engineering tool
    (Oct 3, 2006)
  • System and method for horizontal alignment of tokens in a structural representation program editor
    (Jan 5, 1999)
    See all 11 patents »

    Awards

    News

  • The Maxine Inspector: Developer support for VM research
    Sun Microsystems


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