Cristina Lopes


Cristina Videira Lopes is a professor of informatics and computer science at University of California, Irvine.

Education

Lopes received a PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 1998 under Karl Lieberherr and Gregor Kiczales.

Career

Prior to being a professor, she was a research scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. While at PARC, she was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming and started aspectj.org. She later has been working in ubiquitous computing, with a focus in communication mechanisms that are pervasive, secure and intuitive for humans to perceive and interact with.

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