Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of Utah, 1981
Professor Kessler is currently serving as Chairman
of the Department of Computer Science. His current research interests
are in agents, software engineering, distributed systems, and visual
programming. In the early 90's, he founded the Center for Software
Science, a state of Utah Center of Excellence. He has also founded
several startup companies and is currently involved with an Internet
startup company, emWare, as a member of the board. He has served as
member-at-large of ACM SIGPLAN and Vice Chairman for Conferences for
SIGPLAN. He recently completed a seven year assignment as
co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Lisp and Symbolic
Computation.
