Kurdish Text to Speech
An open source library to convert Kurdish text to speech. It is still under development, its project page can be accessed by java.net users (membership is free). Once there is a usable product, the project page goes public.
The Loci Plugin
Loci is a pluggable type checker, helps programmers to check
the correctness of the thread-locality in their programs. It
uses a simple statically checkable set of annotations.
Loci is an open source program and licensed under GPLv3.0. The
source code is publicly available here.
It started as a Master thesis at Uppsala University by me and as
of today, I am its only developer. The first version of Loci (version 0.1
which is also the latest) was out on 28th Mar 2011, and version
0.2 is under development. Finally, the project's wiki page is here and its homepage
is here.
The Thesis
The title of my master thesis was: (The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Pluggable Type Checker for Thread-Locality in Java).
This thesis presents a simple type system for expressing
thread-locality in Java. Classes and types are annotated to
express thread-locality and violations, where supposedly
thread-local data may be shared between two or more threads, are
detected at compile-time. The proposed system is an improvement
over Loci, a minimal and modular type checker for expressing
thread-locality in Java due to Wrigstad et al.
The improved Loci system presented in this thesis only adds an
additional metadata annotation, four in total. We implemented
the system as a command line tool that can be plugged into the
standard javac compiler and used it to evaluate our design on a
number of benchmarks.
We believe that Loci is compatible with how Java programs are
written and that the improved system keeps the annotation
overhead light while making it even simpler to treat a value as
thread-local.
The thesis report can be found here and the slides from the thesis presentation are here. Finally, you can find the proposal here.
Seminars
The following, are some of my seminars and presentations either as a part of my study or as a side activity:
- Free as in Freedom: A Step Towards Software Freedom,
- 2012, Salahaddin University,
Erbil, Iraq
You can find the slides here. - Copyright and Software Licenses,
- 2012, Salahaddin University,
Erbil, Iraq
You can find the slides here. - Open Source Software: A Brief Introduction,
- 2010, Salahaddin University,
Erbil, Iraq
You can find the slides of the presentation here, and here are some photos of the seminar. - JavaServer Faces: an Overview,
- 2010, Uppsala University, Uppsala
Sweden
This was a part of the Electronic Commerce and Security course, you can find the slides here.