Professor, School of Computing
Ph.D., University of Utah, 1981
Professor Kessler's 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.
- L. Williams and R. Kessler ``All I Really Need to Know about
Pair Programming I Learned in Kindergarten," accepted with revisions,
to appear in Communications of the ACM.
- N. Dykman, M. Griss, and R. Kessler ``Nine Suggestions for
Extending UML Extensibility," to appear in UML 99 (October 1999).
- M. Griss, G. Bolcher, Q. Chen, R. Kessler, and L. Osterweil
``Agents and Workflow - An Intimate Connection, or Just Friends?'' to
appear Tools 99 (August 99), Santa Barbara, CA.
- T. Henderson, M. Dekhil, R. Kessler, and M. Griss ``Sensor
Fusion," in ``Control Problems in Robotics and Automation," Edited by
Bruno Siciliano and Kimon Valavanis, Springer-Verlag, London, Volume
in the Series of Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science,
Series Editor: Prof. M. Thoma, 1998, pp. 193-207.
- R. Kessler and M. Griss ``Building Object-Oriented Instrument
Kits," Object Magazine, April 1996. [Also available as HP Laboratories
Technical Report - HPL-96-22.]