CLforJava Week

CLforJava:

What:
A multi-year, capstone project to create a product combining two powerful programming languages: Java  and Common Lisp. Java is routinely used in most industries.  Evolved from AI research, Common Lisp encourages people to think differently about highly complex problems such as bioinformatics, airline reservations, cell phone billing, Web 3.0, and space station maintenance.
This marriage creates a software meta-tool enabling people to build new tools for tackling the current and future hyper-complex problems.

Outcomes:
Over 6 years, approximately 150 students have experienced working in an open-source project as large, complex and intense as they will encounter in industry. They must learn to integrate all of the skills they have learned, as a combination of the sciences and liberal arts, thereby stimulating the critical thinking skills they will require to succeed in their careers.  The final product may place the College on the map of the Open Source software community.

In celebration of the project, look for balloons with blurbs – in the halls of the CS Department!  Also, don’t forget that on Tuesday, March 17, Jerry Boetje (project developer) will be speaking about the project at the ACM meeting: JC Long Room 221, at 12:15pm.