Toon Verwaest

From October 2007 until March 2012 I've worked on my PhD thesis in this group.

For my PhD I've worked on Pinocchio, a fully open but safe reflective system for language experimentation. Initially it bootstraps to a Smalltalk-like language.

I just started at Google Munich where I'll work on the V8 JavaScript engine.

Contact | CV

Activities

• Reviewer for ICPC '12
• Presenter at OOPSLA '12
• Assistant for the Programming Languages course, Spring 2012 (link)
• Reviewer for Onward! '11
• Participant at Deep Into Smalltalk '11
• Reviewer for ICMT '11
• Assistant for the Compiler Construction course, Spring 2011 (link)
• Reviewer for SE '11
• Reviewer for C5 '11
• Presenter at OOPSLA Onward! '10
• Reviewer for TOOLS '10
• Assistant for the Programming Languages course, Spring 2010 (link)
• Participant at CASTA '09
• Participant at TOOLS '09
• Reviewer for RAM-SE '09
• Reviewer for ECOOP '09
• Assistant for the Compiler Construction course, Fall 2008 (link)

Projects

• Pinocchio: An open system for language experimentation (link)
• Pharo: Pharo is a clean, innovative, open-source Smalltalk-inspired environment (link)
• JUnitWire: Testing framework based on JExample (link)
• Moose: Re-engineering framework (link)
• Spy: Squeak VM implemented fully in RPython (PyPy) (link)
• PyGirl: A whole-system virtual machine written in RPython (PyPy) (link)
• Fame: Meta-modeling framework available in multiple languages (link)
• SchemeTalk: A Smalltalk-style OO system as extension to and written in Scheme (link)

Students

• Olivier Flückiger helped me make Pinocchio self-sustaining (bachelor)
• David Gurtner worked on making Pinocchio fit for running ActiveContext, and helped Erwann Wernli to further define the ActiveContext model (master)
• Camillo Bruni looked into techniques for optimally building reflective VMs, as a part of Pinocchio (master)
• Camillo Bruni has used PyPy to build PyGirl (bachelor)
• Daniel Langone worked on reengineering parsers from Eclipse plugins to extract facts (bachelor)
• Sandro De Zanet is using genetic algorithms to generate PEG parsers for code. (master)