University of Utah
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Associate Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D.
, University of Utah, 1981
Professor Kessler
is director of the Center for Software
Science. He is interested in research and development of programming languages
-- mainly compilers and run-time systems for Lisp, C, and C++, operating
systems -- work on the Mach and BSD systems, and parallelism -- parallel
programming. A recent project was just completed in conjunction with the
Hewlett Packard Research Labs to design and implement the software system for
the Mayfly, a new, distributed memory, parallel processor. The software
included two new parallel programming languages: Concurrent Scheme and
Distributed C++. Current ARPA-sponsored work is in support of multi-lingual
programming and persistence in Lisp. Professor Kessler also has interests in
object-oriented programming, and expert system technology applied to software
problems. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Lisp
and Symbolic Computation and is general chair for the 1994 Lisp and Functional
Programming Conference.
- ``Persistent Immutable Shared Abstractions,'' in ``Parallel Symbolic
Computing: Languages, Systems, and Applications'' (US/Japan Workshop
Proceedings), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 748, November
1993 (with B. Yih and M. Swanson).
- ``Compiling Distributed C++,'' the Fifth IEEE Symposium on Parallel and
Distributed Processing, Dallas, Texas, December 1993, (with H. Carr and M.
Swanson), pp 496-503.
- ``Allocation of Parallel Programs with Time Variant Resource
Requirements,'' 1993 International Conference on Parallel Processing, August
1993, (with J. Evans).
- ``The Design of the Schizophrenic Workstation System'', Proceedings of
the 1993 Usenix Mach Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1993, pp 291-306,
(with M. Swanson, L. Stoller, and T. Critchlow).
- ``Implementing Concurrent Scheme for the Mayfly Distributed Parallel
Processing System,'' International Journal on Lisp and Symbolic Computation,
Vol 5:1/2, January 1992, (with H. Carr, L. Stoller, M. Swanson).
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