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          <div id="about">
            <img src="images/neu_photo.jpg" alt="ben" class="ignore" />
            <h3>Resident Professor of Computer Science</h3>
            <p>
              <a target="_blank" href="https://www.genetec.com">Genetec</a>
            </p>

            <!-- <h4>Spring 2025 office hours:</h4> -->
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            <!--   <tr><td>CS2510,</td> <td>Monday 1:00pm&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;2:30pm,</td></tr> -->
            <!--   <tr><td>CS4410,</td> <td>Wednesday 1:00pm&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;2:30m,</td></tr> -->
            <!--   <tr><td>By appointment,</td></tr> -->
            <!--   <tr><td colspan="2">or whenever I'm online and available</td></tr> -->
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          </div>

          <div id="teaching">
            <h2>Teaching</h2>
            <h4>Spring 2025:</h4>
            <ul>
              <li><a title="CS4410/6410 -- Compilers" href="https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs4410sp25/">Compilers</a></li>
              <li>
                  <a title="CS2510a -- Fundamentals of CS II (accelerated)" href="https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs2510asp25/">
		  Fundamentals of CS II (Accelerated): Introduction to
                  Object-Oriented Programming</a></li>
            </ul>
	    <h4>Fall 2024:</h4>
            <ul>
              <li><a title="CS4500 -- Software Development" href="https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs4500f24/">
                  Software Development</a></li>
              <li><a title="CS2500a -- Fundamentals of CS I (accelerated)" href="https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs2500accelf24/">
                  Fundamentals of CS I (accelerated): Introduction to Programming and Computing</a></li>
	    </ul>
	    <h4><a href="teaching.html">Earlier semesters</a></h4>
          </div>

          <div id="interests">
            <h2>Research interests and papers</h2>
            <ul>
              <li>
                <a href="http://www.pyret.org" title="Pyret">Pyret</a>:
                A language designed for teaching introductory
                programming, with an emphasis on testing, clarity, and
                the occasionally-awful pirate-themed pun.
              </li>
	      <li>
		<a href="academic.html" title="Semantics for Web
		Programming">Semantics for Web Programming</a>:
		Modern web programs mix rich data structures, subtle
		event-based execution, third-party data, and powerful
		but small-scale APIs.  Understanding and analyzing
		these programs requires first building testable and
		executable semantics for each of these pieces, and
		then using these semantics to drive program analyses.
              </li>
	      <li>
		<a href="browser-extensions.html" title="Web-browser
		extensions">Web browser extension compatibility</a>:
		Firefox&#8217;s rise in popularity can be largely
		attributed to its much-touted extensions, which offer
		versatility, convenience and relatively-low learning
		curves to amateur and expert coders alike.  But with
		such customizability comes problems: many extensions
		fail to work properly when installed simultaneously.
		This project aims to provide a better programming
		model for extensions that can detect and perhaps
		correct these conflicts before they happen.
	      </li>
            </ul>
            <p>More information can be found on the <a href="academic.html">following page</a>.</p>
          </div>