Simon Peyton Jones
The goal of the "New dimensions in Excel" project is to empower end-user programmers (that is, Excel users who are not professional programmers) to tackle more challenging applications. At the moment, larger and more complex spreadsheets often require the help of a professional programmer to write part of the application in Visual Basic. Our extensions would extend the "reach" of what can be done without leaving the familiar cells-and-formulae paradigm that has proved so successful in practice.
The main focus of the project is internal (to influence the Office team) but we have also published one paper
This project is a collaboration between