David Ungar, an American computer scientist, co-created the Self programming language with Randall Smith. The SELF development environment's animated user experience was described in the influential paper Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface co-written with Bay-Wei Chang, which won a lasting impact award at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2004.
Ungar graduated as a doctor of philosophy in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. His doctoral advisor was David Patterson and his dissertation was entitled The Design and Evaluation of a High-Performance Smalltalk System; it won the 1986 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was an assistant professor at Stanford University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems Lab, where he taught programming languages and computer architecture, from 1985 to 1990. In 1991, he joined Sun Microsystems and became a distinguished engineer. In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2007, he joined IBM Research, where he is currently a member of the Dynamic Optimization Group.
Dave Ungar was awarded the Dahl-Nygaard_Prize in 2009.
Publications and patents
- Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface, Bay-Wei Chang and David Ungar, Mar 1, 1995
- Self: The Power of Simplicity, Randall B. Smith and David Ungar, Dec 1, 1994
- Patent: Method and apparatus for increasing scavenging garbage collection effectiveness - (Jan 20, 2004)
- Patent: Method and apparatus for testing a process in a computer system - (Jul 15, 2003)
- Patent: Method and apparatus for finding bugs related to garbage collection in a virtual machine - (Dec 4, 2001)
- Patent: Method and apparatus of translating and executing native code in a virtual machine environment - (Aug 28, 2001)
- Patent: Method and apparatus for supporting efficient programming in dynamic pointer-safe languages - (Aug 21, 2001)
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