About Cristina Lopes
Born 1966. Cristina Lopes is an American computer scientist and university teacher.
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 (PARC). While at PARC, she was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) 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.
Awards and honors 2011: ACM Distinguished Member
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Cristina Lopes was born on 3 February 1966.
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