Selected Papers

by Wilson Hsieh

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Research topics:

• Resource Management in Programming Languages
• Programming Language Design
• Programming Language Implementation
• Architecture
• Systems

• Resource Management in Programming Languages
  • Processes in KaffeOS: Isolation, Resource Management, and Sharing in Java
    by Godmar Back, Wilson C. Hsieh, and Jay Lepreau.

    This paper appeared in the proceedings of the Sixth USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation.

  • Techniques for the Design of Java Operating Systems
    by Godmar Back, Patrick Tullmann, Leigh Stoller, Wilson C. Hsieh, and Jay Lepreau.

    This paper appeared in the proceedings of the annual USENIX Technical Conference 2000.

  • Drawing the Red Line in Java
    by Godmar Back and Wilson Hsieh.

    This paper appeared in the proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems.

• Programming Language Design
  • Aspect-Oriented Programming in Jiazzi
    by Sean McDirmid and Wilson C. Hsieh.

    This paper will appear in the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Design.

  • Maya: Multiple-Dispatch Syntax Extension in Java
    by Jason Baker and Wilson C. Hsieh.

    This paper appears in the proceedings of the SIGPLAN '02 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. The slides from the talk are available in PowerPoint format.

  • Runtime Aspect Weaving Through Metaprogramming
    by Jason Baker and Wilson C. Hsieh.

    This paper appears in the proceedings of the First International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Design. The slides from the talk are available in PowerPoint format.

  • Mixing COP and OOP
    by Sean McDirmid, Matthew Flatt, and Wilson C. Hsieh.

    This paper appeared in the proceedings of the First OOPSLA Workshop on Language Mechanisms for Programming Software Components. It lays out the motivation for the Jiazzi system.

  • Jiazzi: New-Age Components for Old-Fashioned Java
    by Sean McDirmid, Matthew Flatt, and Wilson C. Hsieh.

    This paper appeared in the proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications. The slides from the talk are available in PowerPoint or HTML formats.

    We also presented a poster that illustrates how development in Jiazzi works.

  • `C and tcc: A Language and Compiler for Dynamic Code Generation
    by Massimiliano Poletto, Wilson C. Hsieh, Dawson Engler, and M. Frans Kaashoek.

    This paper appeared in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 21(2), March 1999.

  • Type-Safe Casting
    by Wilson C. Hsieh, Marc E. Fiuczynski, Przemyslaw Pardyak, and Brian N. Bershad.

    This paper appeared in Software: Practice and Experience, 28(11), September 1998.

  • The Interaction of Access Control and Object Orientation in Extensible Systems
    by Wilson C. Hsieh, Przemyslaw Pardyak, Marc E. Fiuczynski, Charles Garrett, and Brian N. Bershad.

    This paper appeared in the proceedings of TOOLS '98.

• Programming Language Implementation
  • Reverse-Engineering Instruction Encodings
    by Wilson C. Hsieh, Dawson R. Engler, and Godmar Back. An HTML version is also available.

    This paper appeared in the proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. The slides from the talk are available in PowerPoint or HTML formats.

  • The Need for Predictable GC
    by Alastair Reid, John McCorquodale, Jason Baker, Wilson Hsieh, and Joseph Zachary.

    This paper appeared in the proceeedings of Second Workshop on Compiler Support for System Software.

  • Automatic Generation of DAG Parallelism
    by Ron Cytron, Michael Hind, and Wilson Hsieh.

    This paper appears in the proceedings of the SIGPLAN '89 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.

• Architecture
  • Message-Passing for the 21st Century: Integrating User-Level Networks with SMT
    by Mike Parker, Al Davis, and Wilson Hsieh.

    This appeared in the proceedings of MTEAC '01.

  • A Cost Framework for Evaluating Integrated Restructuring Optimizations
    by Bharat Chandramouli, John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, and Sally McKee.

    This appeared in the proceedings of PACT '01.

  • The Impulse Memory Controller
    by Lixin Zhang, Zhen Fang, Mike Parker, Binu K. Mathew, Lambert Schaelicke, John B. Carter, Wilson Hsieh, and Sally McKee.

    This appeared in Transactions of Computer Systems, 50 (11), November 2001.

  • Reevaluating Online Superpage Promotion with Hardware Support
    by Zhen Fang, Lixin Zhang, John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, and Sally McKee.

    This appeared in the proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture.

  • Memory System Support for Image Processing
    by Lixin Zhang, John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, and Sally McKee.

    This paper will appear at the 1999 Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques.

  • Impulse: Building a Smarter Memory Controller
    by John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Mark Swanson, Lixin Zhang, Erik Brunvand, Al Davis, Chen-Chi Kuo, Ravindra Kuramkote, Michael Parker, Lambert Schaelicke, and Terry Tateyama.

    This paper appeared in the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture.

• Systems
  • Dynamic Computation Migration in DSM Systems
    by Wilson C. Hsieh, M. Frans Kaashoek, and William E. Weihl.

    This paper appears in the proceedings of Supercomputing '96.

  • Atomic Recovery Units: Failure Atomicity for Logical Disks
    by Robert Grimm, Wilson C. Hsieh, Wiebren de Jonge, and M. Frans Kaashoek.

    This paper appears in the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

  • Optimistic Active Messages: A Mechanism for Scheduling Communication with Computation
    by Deborah A. Wallach, Wilson C. Hsieh, Kirk Johnson, M. Frans Kaashoek, and William E. Weihl.

    This paper appears in the proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming.

  • The Logical Disk: A New Approach to Improving File Systems
    by Wiebren de Jonge, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Wilson C. Hsieh.

    This paper appears in the proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.

  • Computation Migration: Enhancing Locality for Distributed-Memory Parallel Systems
    by Wilson C. Hsieh, Paul Wang, and William E. Weihl.

    This paper appears in the proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming.

• Here are my PhD dissertation and SB/SM thesis, if you're interested.
  • Dynamic Computation Migration in Distributed Shared Memory Systems
    by Wilson C. Hsieh.

    This document was my PhD dissertation, supervised by Bill Weihl and Frans Kaashoek. It is available as MIT/LCS/TR-665.

  • Extracting Parallelism from Sequential Programs
    by Wilson C. Hsieh.

    This document was my SM/SB thesis, supervised by Bill Weihl and Michael Burke. I have attached an errata sheet that contains one erratum as the last page.