Alex Aiken

Professor of Computer Science

Contact FAQ Publications Software Bio Teaching Research Misc Students

Biographical Sketch

Alex Aiken received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Music from Bowling Green State University in 1983 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. Alex was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center (1988-1993) and a Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley (1993-2003) before joining the Stanford faculty in 2003. He is married to Jennifer Widom. Jennifer and Alex have a son Tim and a daughter Emily. Here are some photos from the family's travels.

And here's a link to various pages internal to these projects.

CQual: Adding specifications to programs with programmer-defined type qualifiers.
Banshee, daughter of BANE, the Berkeley ANalysis Engine for constructing constraint-based program analyses.
CAP: Search millions of lines of open source for your code.
Open Source Quality Project: Applying technology to software engineering problems.
Titanium: Compiler support for explicit parallel programming.
Cool: A freely available course project for teaching compilers to undergraduates.
Moss: A Measure of Software Similarity, useful for detecting plagiarism in programming assignments.

I delivered a memorial for John Backus at PLDI'07.
My wife and I will be taking most of the '07-'08 academic year off to travel with our kids. Those with too much time on their hands can check out the trip's web page.