doctoral_advisor fields workplaces name known_for article_title citizenship alma_mater
peter wegner computer science university hp labs of texas at austin , apple inc. , william r. cook denotational semantics of inheritance ; object-oriented programming ; applescript william cook -lrb- computer scientist -rrb-
 united states brown university
william cook -lrb- computer scientist -rrb-

william r. cook -lrb- born 1963 -rrb- is an associate professor in the department of computer sciences at university of texas at austin .
he received his ph.d. in computer science in 1989 at brown university .
his research concentrates on object-oriented programming , programming languages , modeling languages , and the interface between programming languages and databases .
prior to joining ut in 2003 , he was chief technology officer and co-founder of allegis corporation , where he was chief architect for several award-winning products , including the ebusiness suite at allegis , the writer 's solution for prentice hall , and the applescript language at apple computer .
at hp labs his research was on the foundations of object-oriented languages , including formal models of mixins , inheritance , and typed models of object-oriented languages .
