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PUC-Rio Associate Professor Alessandro Garcia will be speaking at 4 p.m. in Avery 115 next Tuesday, Dec. 11. There will be a reception preceding the talk at 3:30 in Avery 348.
Garcia is the head of the Opus Research Group at PUC-Rio. His research interests include modularity, exception handling, software architecture, software refactoring, product lines, metrics and experimental software engineering, security, and software fault tolerance.