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[[FILE:IraBaxter.JPG|border|right|thumb|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_dw9iEzhA| Ira Baxter <ref>Image from [[#DMS|DMS: Software Tool Infrastructure]]</ref> ]]
'''Ira D. Baxter''',<br/>
an American entrepreneur, Ph.D. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science computer science] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine University of California, Irvine], 1990,
and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer CEO]
<ref>[http://www.semdesigns.com/Company/People/idbaxter/ Semantic Designs People: Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D.]</ref>
<ref>[https://www.sosy-lab.org/people/wirsing/ Martin Wirsing], [http://emergences.inria.fr/2011/newsletter_n17/L17_ICTLABS Rémi Ronchaud] (eds.) ('''2004'''). ''Report on the EU/NSF Strategic Workshop on Engineering Software-Intensive Systems''. May 22-23, 2004, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh Edinburgh], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain GB], [https://www.ercim.eu/EU-NSF/sis.pdf pdf]</ref>
of ''Semantic Desigs'' <ref>[http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/IraBaxter Program Transformation Wiki / Ira Baxter]</ref>.
He is the principal architect of Semantic Designs' ''Design Maintenance System'' (DMS) <ref>[http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DMSSoftwareReengineeringToolkit Program Transformation Wiki / DMSSoftware Reengineering Toolkit]</ref>,
principal designer and compiler implementer of ''PARLANSE'' <ref>[http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/Parlanse/index.html Semantic Designs: PARLANSE Parallel Programming Language for Windows Pentium/80x86]</ref>,
a parallel [[Languages|programming language]] <ref>[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/714905/is-it-possible-to-create-threads-without-system-calls-in-linux-x86-gas-assembly multithreading - Threads in x86 assembler (using the GNU assember: as)] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow Stack Overflow]</ref>,
and architect and principal engineer on ''CloneDR'' <ref>[http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/Clone/ Semantic Designs, Inc: Clone Doctor]</ref>, an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree AST]-based [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_code Clone Detection] technology.
=Software Dynamics=
Involved with computing since 1966, Ira Baxter started ''Software Dynamics'' in 1976, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_house systems software house], where he designed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler compilers], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing time-sharing] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network distributed network] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system operating systems],
and the chess program [[SD Chess]] written in compiled [[Basic]] to run on a [[6800]] based microcomputer <ref>[[Douglas Penrod]] (ed.) ('''1977'''). ''[https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6d6b8e/ Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]''. p. 9</ref>, A program called '''Chess D''' by Ira Baxter was on the Stand-By list of the [[WCCC 1983]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York] <ref>''The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship'', [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_36_C.pdf pdf] courtesy [[Danny Kopec]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Baxter:Ira_D=.html dblp: Ira D. Baxter]</ref>
==1977 ...==
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''1977'''). ''Letter''. in [[Douglas Penrod]] (ed.) ('''1977'''). ''[https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6d6b8e/ Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]''. p. 9, [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-0.Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter/Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter.1977.062303031.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]], Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]]
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''1978'''). ''Software Dynamics Chess''. [[Personal Computing#2_6|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6]], pp. 91
* Chris Morgan ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#BYTE301|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]] <ref>hosted by [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/ Modern Mechanix], Photo 4: [[Ira Baxter|Ira Baxter’s]] [[SD Chess|chess playing system]] display, which competed in the [[MCCT 1978|Microcomputer Chess Tournament]] at the Faire. The level of play was impressive, and the winning program, called [[Sargon|SARGON]], was a 16 K byte [[Z80|Z-80]] [[Assembly|assembler]] program written by a husband and wife team, [[Kathe Spracklen|Kathe]] and [[Dan Spracklen]].</ref> » [[MCCT 1978]], [[Sargon]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''1992'''). ''Design Maintenance Systems''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 35, No. 4
* [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mehlich:Michael Michael Mehlich] ('''1997'''). ''Reverse Engineering is Reverse Forward Engineering''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/wcre/wcre1997.html WCRE 1997]
* [[Ira Baxter]], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/p/Pidgeon:Christopher.html Christopher Pidgeon] ('''1997'''). ''Software Change Through Design Maintenance''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icsm/icsm1997.html ICSM 1997]
* [[Ira Baxter]], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/y/Yahin:Andrew.html Andrew Yahin], [http://journalogy.net/Author/10538133/leonardo-mendonca-de-moura Leonardo Mendonça de Moura], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Sant=Anna:Marcelo.html Marcelo Sant'Anna], [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lorraine-bier/0/937/599 Lorraine Bier] ('''1998'''). ''Clone Detection Using Abstract Syntax Trees''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icsm/icsm1998.html ICSM 1998]
==2000 ...==
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''2003'''). ''Massively Reengineering Architectures With Automated Tools''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icsm/icsm2003.html ICSM 2003]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/a/Akers:Robert_L=.html Robert L. Akers], [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mehlich:Michael Michael Mehlich] ('''2004'''). ''Invited application paper: re-engineering C++ components via automatic program transformation''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/pepm/pepm2004.html PEPM 2004], [http://www.semdesigns.com/Company/Publications/component-reengineering-PEPM-2004.pdf pdf]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/a/Akers:Robert_L=.html Robert L. Akers], [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mehlich:Michael Michael Mehlich], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/e/Ellis:Brian_J= Brian J. Ellis], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Luecke:Kenn_R=.html Kenn R. Luecke] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/wcre/2005/2474/00/24740013-abs.html Reengineering C++ Component Models via Automatic Program Transformation]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/wcre/wcre2005.html WCRE 2005]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/t/Tairas:Robert Robert Tairas], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/g/Gray:Jeffrey_G= Jeff Gray], [[Ira Baxter]] ('''2006'''). ''Visualization of clone detection results''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/eclipse/eclipse2006.html#TairasGB06 ETX 2006]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/a/Akers:Robert_L=.html Robert L. Akers], [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mehlich:Michael Michael Mehlich], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/e/Ellis:Brian_J= Brian J. Ellis], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Luecke:Kenn_R=.html Kenn R. Luecke] ('''2007'''). ''Case study: Re-engineering C++ component models via automatic program transformation''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/infsof/infsof49.html Information & Software Technology, Vol. 49, No. 3]
==2010 ...==
* [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Conradt:Michael.html Michael Conradt], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cordy James R. Cordy], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Koschke:Rai ner Rainer Koschke] ('''2012'''). ''Software Clone Management Towards Industrial Application''. [http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=12071 Dagstuhl Seminar 12071].
=Postings=
* [http://fox.cs.vt.edu/VAD1/DOWN/AILIST/V8/N138 Re: "Iterative Deeping" reference wanted] by [[Ira Baxter]], AIList Digest, December 06, 1988 » [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=458105 "Sneaky Pete" program from 1977?] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]], [[CCC]], October 27, 2005
=External Links=
* [http://www.semdesigns.com/Company/People/idbaxter/ Semantic Designs People: Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D.]
* [http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/IraBaxter Program Transformation Wiki / Ira Baxter]
* [https://stackoverflow.com/users/120163/ira-baxter Ira Baxter] @ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow Stack Overflow]
* <span id="DMS"></span> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_dw9iEzhA DMS: Software Tool Infrastructure], [http://research.google.com/ Google Tech Talk], July 27, 2010, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_dw9iEzhA?rel=0|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references>
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Chess Programmer|Baxter]]
[[Category:Entrepreneur|Baxter]]
[[Category:Videos|Baxter]]
[[FILE:IraBaxter.JPG|border|right|thumb|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_dw9iEzhA| Ira Baxter <ref>Image from [[#DMS|DMS: Software Tool Infrastructure]]</ref> ]]
'''Ira D. Baxter''',<br/>
an American entrepreneur, Ph.D. in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science computer science] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine University of California, Irvine], 1990,
and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer CEO]
<ref>[http://www.semdesigns.com/Company/People/idbaxter/ Semantic Designs People: Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D.]</ref>
<ref>[https://www.sosy-lab.org/people/wirsing/ Martin Wirsing], [http://emergences.inria.fr/2011/newsletter_n17/L17_ICTLABS Rémi Ronchaud] (eds.) ('''2004'''). ''Report on the EU/NSF Strategic Workshop on Engineering Software-Intensive Systems''. May 22-23, 2004, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh Edinburgh], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain GB], [https://www.ercim.eu/EU-NSF/sis.pdf pdf]</ref>
of ''Semantic Desigs'' <ref>[http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/IraBaxter Program Transformation Wiki / Ira Baxter]</ref>.
He is the principal architect of Semantic Designs' ''Design Maintenance System'' (DMS) <ref>[http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DMSSoftwareReengineeringToolkit Program Transformation Wiki / DMSSoftware Reengineering Toolkit]</ref>,
principal designer and compiler implementer of ''PARLANSE'' <ref>[http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/Parlanse/index.html Semantic Designs: PARLANSE Parallel Programming Language for Windows Pentium/80x86]</ref>,
a parallel [[Languages|programming language]] <ref>[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/714905/is-it-possible-to-create-threads-without-system-calls-in-linux-x86-gas-assembly multithreading - Threads in x86 assembler (using the GNU assember: as)] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow Stack Overflow]</ref>,
and architect and principal engineer on ''CloneDR'' <ref>[http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/Clone/ Semantic Designs, Inc: Clone Doctor]</ref>, an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree AST]-based [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_code Clone Detection] technology.
=Software Dynamics=
Involved with computing since 1966, Ira Baxter started ''Software Dynamics'' in 1976, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_house systems software house], where he designed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler compilers], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing time-sharing] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network distributed network] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system operating systems],
and the chess program [[SD Chess]] written in compiled [[Basic]] to run on a [[6800]] based microcomputer <ref>[[Douglas Penrod]] (ed.) ('''1977'''). ''[https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6d6b8e/ Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]''. p. 9</ref>, A program called '''Chess D''' by Ira Baxter was on the Stand-By list of the [[WCCC 1983]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York] <ref>''The Fourth World Computer Chess Championship'', [http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_36_C.pdf pdf] courtesy [[Danny Kopec]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Baxter:Ira_D=.html dblp: Ira D. Baxter]</ref>
==1977 ...==
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''1977'''). ''Letter''. in [[Douglas Penrod]] (ed.) ('''1977'''). ''[https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/doc-431614f6d6b8e/ Computer Chess Newsletter, Issue 2]''. p. 9, [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/4-0.Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter/Issue_2_Computer_Chess_Newsletter.1977.062303031.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]], Courtesy of [[Peter Jennings]]
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''1978'''). ''Software Dynamics Chess''. [[Personal Computing#2_6|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 6]], pp. 91
* Chris Morgan ('''1978'''). ''[http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-second-west-coast-computer-faire/1/#mmGal The Second West Coast Computer Faire]''. [[Byte Magazine#BYTE301|BYTE, Vol. 3, No. 7]] <ref>hosted by [http://blog.modernmechanix.com/ Modern Mechanix], Photo 4: [[Ira Baxter|Ira Baxter’s]] [[SD Chess|chess playing system]] display, which competed in the [[MCCT 1978|Microcomputer Chess Tournament]] at the Faire. The level of play was impressive, and the winning program, called [[Sargon|SARGON]], was a 16 K byte [[Z80|Z-80]] [[Assembly|assembler]] program written by a husband and wife team, [[Kathe Spracklen|Kathe]] and [[Dan Spracklen]].</ref> » [[MCCT 1978]], [[Sargon]]
==1990 ...==
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''1992'''). ''Design Maintenance Systems''. [[ACM#Communications|Communications of the ACM]], Vol. 35, No. 4
* [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mehlich:Michael Michael Mehlich] ('''1997'''). ''Reverse Engineering is Reverse Forward Engineering''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/wcre/wcre1997.html WCRE 1997]
* [[Ira Baxter]], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/p/Pidgeon:Christopher.html Christopher Pidgeon] ('''1997'''). ''Software Change Through Design Maintenance''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icsm/icsm1997.html ICSM 1997]
* [[Ira Baxter]], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/y/Yahin:Andrew.html Andrew Yahin], [http://journalogy.net/Author/10538133/leonardo-mendonca-de-moura Leonardo Mendonça de Moura], [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Sant=Anna:Marcelo.html Marcelo Sant'Anna], [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lorraine-bier/0/937/599 Lorraine Bier] ('''1998'''). ''Clone Detection Using Abstract Syntax Trees''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icsm/icsm1998.html ICSM 1998]
==2000 ...==
* [[Ira Baxter]] ('''2003'''). ''Massively Reengineering Architectures With Automated Tools''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icsm/icsm2003.html ICSM 2003]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/a/Akers:Robert_L=.html Robert L. Akers], [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mehlich:Michael Michael Mehlich] ('''2004'''). ''Invited application paper: re-engineering C++ components via automatic program transformation''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/pepm/pepm2004.html PEPM 2004], [http://www.semdesigns.com/Company/Publications/component-reengineering-PEPM-2004.pdf pdf]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/a/Akers:Robert_L=.html Robert L. Akers], [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mehlich:Michael Michael Mehlich], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/e/Ellis:Brian_J= Brian J. Ellis], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Luecke:Kenn_R=.html Kenn R. Luecke] ('''2005'''). ''[http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/wcre/2005/2474/00/24740013-abs.html Reengineering C++ Component Models via Automatic Program Transformation]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/wcre/wcre2005.html WCRE 2005]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/t/Tairas:Robert Robert Tairas], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/g/Gray:Jeffrey_G= Jeff Gray], [[Ira Baxter]] ('''2006'''). ''Visualization of clone detection results''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/eclipse/eclipse2006.html#TairasGB06 ETX 2006]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/a/Akers:Robert_L=.html Robert L. Akers], [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mehlich:Michael Michael Mehlich], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/e/Ellis:Brian_J= Brian J. Ellis], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Luecke:Kenn_R=.html Kenn R. Luecke] ('''2007'''). ''Case study: Re-engineering C++ component models via automatic program transformation''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/infsof/infsof49.html Information & Software Technology, Vol. 49, No. 3]
==2010 ...==
* [[Ira Baxter]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Conradt:Michael.html Michael Conradt], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cordy James R. Cordy], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Koschke:Rai ner Rainer Koschke] ('''2012'''). ''Software Clone Management Towards Industrial Application''. [http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=12071 Dagstuhl Seminar 12071].
=Postings=
* [http://fox.cs.vt.edu/VAD1/DOWN/AILIST/V8/N138 Re: "Iterative Deeping" reference wanted] by [[Ira Baxter]], AIList Digest, December 06, 1988 » [[Iterative Deepening]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=458105 "Sneaky Pete" program from 1977?] by [[Carey Bloodworth|Carey]], [[CCC]], October 27, 2005
=External Links=
* [http://www.semdesigns.com/Company/People/idbaxter/ Semantic Designs People: Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D.]
* [http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/IraBaxter Program Transformation Wiki / Ira Baxter]
* [https://stackoverflow.com/users/120163/ira-baxter Ira Baxter] @ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow Stack Overflow]
* <span id="DMS"></span> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_dw9iEzhA DMS: Software Tool Infrastructure], [http://research.google.com/ Google Tech Talk], July 27, 2010, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_dw9iEzhA?rel=0|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references>
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Chess Programmer|Baxter]]
[[Category:Entrepreneur|Baxter]]
[[Category:Videos|Baxter]]
