Cristina Videira Lopes is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...

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Prior to being a professor, she was a Research Scientist at the Xerox

Xerox

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 Palo Alto Research Center. While at PARC

PARC

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, She was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming

Aspect-oriented programming

In computing, aspect-oriented programming is a programming paradigm which aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns...

 (AOP) and started aspectj.org. More recently, she has been working in ubiquitous computing

Ubiquitous computing

Ubiquitous computing is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. In the course of ordinary activities, someone "using" ubiquitous computing engages many computational devices and systems...

, with a focus in communication mechanisms that are pervasive, secure and intuitive for humans to perceive and interact with.

List of publications

• Papers by Cristina Lopes