Bart Massey

Research Interests

My current research interests are quite broad, but all contain an emphasis on open source software development and software engineering. I have a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, and do some work around applications of search and machine learning in autonomous systems, planning, and scheduling, and one- and two-player games.

I have been involved with work on the X Window System for some time now; I am currently Secretary for the X.org Board of Directors. I am the principal designer of the XCB X protocol C binding library and a lead participant in my students' Xlib/XCB project. I have also been involved with the development of fontconfig and the Cairo libraries. The hosting of freedesktop.org at Portland State is partly the result of my efforts.

I have been lead faculty advisor to the Portland State Aerospace Society for many years now, building open source sounding rockets featuring highly advanced amateur avionics.

My micro-business, bart-massey.com LLC, is focused on open technology hardware/software solutions.

I am an advocate of lightweight formal methods as a software engineering tool, and have done work in applying these methods to open source development. I also have research interests in programming languages, systems, and tools, and am the co-author of the Nickle open source programming language and implementation.

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