Computer-assisted programming could make the make the coding responsible for robotic behaviors less tedious and more intuitive.
The University of Pennsylvania will lead a $10 Million National Science Foundation project to make computer programming faster, easier and more intuitive. Dubbed ExCAPE for Expeditions in Computer Augmented Program Engineering, the project is a highly collaborative effort that will involve multiple research institutions, partners in industry and educational outreach to the next generation of computer scientists. The project was awarded a five-year, $10 million grant as part of the NSF's Expeditions in Computing program, which funds teams with ambitious, fundamental-research agendas in computer science. The ExCAPE team will be led by Rajeev Alur , professor of computer and information science in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science. Alur will collaborate with fellow Penn engineering professors Milo Martin , Boon Thau Loo , George Pappas and Steve Zdancewic. The ExCAPE team also includes researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Los Angeles; Cornell University; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the University of Maryland; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of Michigan; and Rice University. "Computers have evolved at a dramatic pace, but the technology that's used to develop programs and software is evolving comparatively slowly," Alur said.
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