Martin Erwig Stretch Professor of Computer Science School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331-3202 Email: erwig [at] oregonstate.edu Phone: Fax: (541) 737-8893 (541) 737-1300 Office: Kelley Engineering Center 3045 (Map)

Research

My research interests are centered around the following topics:

• Language Design and Domain-Specific Languages
• Functional Programming
• Visual Languages
• CS Education

Activities

I am an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Computer Languages, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Visual Language and Computing, and a member of the SLE steering committee.

Previously, I have been General Chair of GPCE 2020, VL/HCC 2009 and and Program (Co-)Chair of the following conferences: DMSVIVA 2024, PEPM 2016, SLE 2013, VL/HCC 2012, VL/HCC 2005, FOS 2004, HCC/VMPSE 2002, ASDM 2000. I have also been a member of the program committees for the following conferences and workshops: VL/HCC 2024, GPCE 2024, VL/HCC 2023, GPCE 2023, DMSVIVA 2023, PADL 2022, DMSVIVA 2022, GPCE 2021, VL/HCC 2021, DMSVIVA 2021, IFL 2020, VL/HCC 2020, DMSVIVA 2020, VL/HCC 2019, DMSVIVA 2019, POPL 2019, SNAPL 2019, VL/HCC 2018, SEMS 2018, DMSVIVA 2018, ICFP 2017, Haskell Symposium 2017, DMSVLSS 2017, SEMS 2017, GPCE 2016, SLE 2016, FOSD 2016, VaMoS 2016, ECOOP 2016, VL/HCC 2016, SEMS 2016. FMSPLE 2016, IFL 2015, VaMoS 2015, GPCE 2014, SLE 2014, VL/HCC 2014, DSLDI 2014, FOSD 2014, VaMoS 2014, FOSD 2013, GPCE 2013, VL/HCC 2013, VaMoS 2013, FOSD 2012, PPDP 2012, PEPM 2012, VaMoS 2012, VL/HCC 2011, IFL 2011, FOSD 2011, PADL 2011, VaMoS 2011, TFP 2010, VL/HCC 2010, GPCE 2009, DSL 2009, SEEUP 2009, VL/HCC 2008, IFL 2008, VL/HCC 2007, RULE 2006, VL/HCC 2006, VL/HCC 2004, VLFM 2003, VDB 2002, COSIT 2001, IFL 1999, COSIT 1999, IFL 1997.

Publications

• List of Papers
• List of Abstracts

Books

• Find it on Amazon: Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
  MIT Press Home Page (contains additional teaching material)
  Get the Audiobook
  Haskell code plus introduction with exercises (currently for the first 5 chapters)
  Free teaching material
  Korean, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Portuguese translation (Spanish and Chinese translations coming soon)

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  A short video review by Steve Donoghue (book reviewer for the Washington Post)
  Review in Times Higher Education
  London School of Economics Business Review
  An SMBC comic based on the book

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  My Chatham House talk on algorithms
  My The World Today article on algorithms
  My TV interview on the "Afternoon Live" show on KATU
  My radio interview on XRAY FM (starts at 1:51:33)
  My interview with Chris Richardson on the "This is not a pipe" podcast (YouTube version)


American Book Fest Award Winner:
2017 Best Book Award in the category Education/Academic

2018 PROSE Award
Honorable Mention in the category Computing and Information Sciences


• Find it on Amazon: Programming Language Fundamentals - A Metalanguage Approach in Elm
  Wiley Home Page (contains additional teaching material)
  
  
• Grundlagen funktionaler Programmierung (in German)
• Übersetzerbau: Techniken, Werkzeuge, Anwendungen (in German)

(Mostly Older) Projects ...

Software

• The Functional Graph Library
• The Discrete Interval Encoding Tree
• Probabilistic Functional Programming in Haskell
• The Variation Programming DSL (as part of the Choice Calculus project)
• Embedding Rule Systems in Haskell
• A Recursion and Traversal Library for Haskell
• Search Programming in Haskell
• Parametric Fortran
• Metamorphic Programming in Haskell
• FoXQ - A Form-Based Visual XQuery

Office Hours (Winter 2025)

Mondays:	3:00pm - 4:00pm	(KEC 3045)
Wednesdays:	noon - 1:00pm	(KEC 3045), On demand: Please send me an email by 11am on the day you want to see me during the office hour.
or by appointment