Project Outline:

 

The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth which covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis. The first three volumes of this seven-volume series have been published, and the rest are in the making. In 1999, these books were named among the twelve best physical-science monographs by American Scientist along with: Dirac on quantum mechanics, Einstein on relativity, Mandelbrot on fractals, Pauling on the chemical bond, Russell and Whitehead on foundations of mathematics, von Neumann and Morgenstern on game theory, Wiener on cybernetics, Woodward and Hoffmann on orbital symmetry, Feynman on quantum electrodynamics, Smith on the search for structure, and Einstein's collected papers.

 

All examples in the books use a language called MIX Assembly Language

(MIXAL) which runs on the hypothetical MIX computer. Currently, the MIX computer is being replaced by the MMIX, which is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) version.

 

The purpose of the MMIX project at UMass Boston is to create an integrated development environment (IDE) for MMIX, which will include an editor, assembler, simulator, and interactive Simulator for MMIX Assembly Language

(MMIXAL) programs. The IDE will be built on top of Knuth's implementation of the MMIX machine.

 

For More Information on MMIX refer to Donald Knuth’s Site

 

Please see this presentation for further information about Visual MMIX

 

Please contact us at mmix AT cs umb edu