University of Washington language/OS research: Cecil, Vortex, MultiJava, EML, Whirlwind (done in Cecil), Cecil front-ends for Vortex, and stand alone Cecil interpreter. Focus: practical programming systems that make big programs and systems easier to write, extend. Descriptions, papers.

Specification and rationale: pure object-oriented, prototype-based, statically-typed, to support fast writing of reliable, extensible systems. Description, documents in HTML, PS formats.

Cecil/Vortex design and implementation research papers.