Michael Bar-Sinai

Projects

Currently I'm spending all my time working on Provengo Technologies, where we create next-generation software development tools.

These are some of the projects was involved in - those that I can post online.

• BPjs A runtime and verification engine for behavioral programs written in Javascript. This is part of my work towards a PhD in computer science. More importantly, this is an attempt to create the first behavioral programming platform that can be used by both industry and academia to share BP code, not just ideas.
• ecf.org.il A website for the Economic Cooperation Foundation, and a comprehensive, academic-grade database of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Including interactive maps and historic documents.
• DataTags/PolicyModels Part of my work at IQSS at Harvard University. A system for proper handling of datasets. Contains two programming languages, runtime, and tools. Here is an account of applying this system to Force11's Scholarly Commons working group on decision trees. Here's a short video describing the system, produced towards a PolicyModels hackathon held in Berlin as part of Force2017.
• dataverse Part of my work at IQSS at Harvard University. This is an institutional data repository aimed at proper data citations (which is more complex than you might think).
• TJerusalem iPad app - a virtual tour in Jerusalem. Made for SAYA - design for change.
• TJ-web tour An HTML5 version of the above app. Made for SAYA - design for change.
• no2bio-eng Pro-Bono project, part of the reach-out effort of the good people who struggle against the Israeli compulsory biometric database.
• no2bio-gone-personal Same agenda, this time with a "call your representative" twist. And a dash of HTML5 interactive d3.js.

Academic Works

• ORCID
• Google Scholar

Talks/Op-Eds

• Devoxx.be 2018: Rethinking Software Systems: A friendly introduction to Behavioral Programming (YouTube) A friendly introduction to behavioral programming, and to a behavioral programming tool suite I've developed as part of my work towards a PhD. talk materials
  This talk was included in Devoxx Belgium 2018 top 100.
  James Birnie (ThoughtWorks) wrote a review about this talk.
• CodeONE2018: Sensibly Storing Sensitive Stuff (YouTube) Gustavo Durand and me talk about this subject. slides
• JavaOne 2017: CON3449 - The Open Monolith: Keeping Your Codebase (and your headaches) Small Matthew Dunlap and me take a look at how to make a monolithic application more pluggable, without losing all the advantages of monolithic architecture. slides
  Matthew and me were awarded a "CodeONE star" award for this talk.
• JavaOne 2016: BOF4161 - REST in Peace with Java EE Gustavo Durand and me try to explain how we implemented the REST api of Dataverse. slides
• Sharing Sensitive Data with Confidence: The DataTags System Prof. Latanya Sweeney, Dr. Mercè Crosas and me talk about the DataTags project and system in general. A talk at Harvard's Data Privacy Lab's Topics in Privacy series.
• JavaOne 2014: BOF5619 - Lean Beans (are made of this): Command pattern vs. MVC Philip Durbin and me exploring command patterns and an alternative to the common Java EE architecture. slides
• JavaOne 2014: BOF3024 - Learning Scala: A Practical Approach Bob Tracy and me looking into how to learn Scala and keep your day job. slides
• DataTags intro I present the DataTags project to unsuspecting students. Part of an REU program at Harvard.
• Op-ed against Israel's forthcoming biometric database Explaining how the biometric database could be exploited to get immunity from the criminal law by injecting false data into it, who might be interested in such an injection, and why those interested are those who can actually make such injection happen. (Hebrew)
• VOXXED: Making the Case for Command Pattern Over MVC An interview I had with VOXXED.com, about a talk Phil Durbin an I gave at JavaOne SF 2014.

Since you've got all the way down to here, here's a bit about myself: My PhD thesis is in software engineering, and focuses on a model-based approach based on Behavioral Programming models. I'm a software engineer (BSc. from the Technion, Israel Institute of Science). I have experience working on various systems, from iOS to web systems to general consulting. I've also used VB6, C, ruby and others.