Tony Garnock-Jones

I’m an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Advanced Computing Studies at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. I’m also a software developer.

I work on programming languages, with a particular focus on language features for writing concurrent programs. I’m also interested in distributed systems and personal computing.

My main current project is Syndicate, a programming language design for concurrent and interactive programming.

Research interests

My research focuses on Network-Aware Programming: the design and implementation of programming languages and programming systems that incorporate ideas from distributed systems and networking.

More broadly, I’m interested in interpretation very generally, both the horizontal kind that crops up when two programs exchange data across a communications interface of some kind, and the vertical kind that appears when you have a host/guest relationship, such as that between a virtual machine and an operating system, or between a physical server and a hypervisor, or between an interpreter and a program, or between a program and its configuration files. Browsing around my projects, big and small, will give a more detailed view of the kinds of things I mean.

News

I’ve recently resumed writing blog posts at eighty-twenty.org about the things that have been occupying my mind.