Threads contributors

Contributors to Threads

The following people have contributed to Threads. We welcome your contributions! Send e-mail to threads@cmass.com for more information.

Spencer Allain is a software engineer at Teknowledge Corporation.

Threads #2. Teaching Computer Science with Modula-3

Brian N. Bershad is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington. Bershad does research in operating systems, distributed systems, networking, parallel systems, and architecture.

Threads #3. Low-Level Systems Programming with Modula-3

Laszlo Boeszoermenyi teaches at University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He is one of the authors of the book Programming with Modula-3: An Introduction to Programming with Style, ISBN 3-540-57911-7. This book is currently available in German. An English translation will soon follow by Springer-Verlag.

Threads #1. Modula-3 in Academia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Amer Diwan is a graduate student and a member of Object Systems Laboratory at the computer science department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Amer's current research interests are in compiler optimizations and language run-time systems.

Threads #1. The Whole Program Optimizer

Mary Fernandez is a senior member of technical staff at AT&T Research.

Threads #2. Link-Time Optimization of Modula-3

Marc Fiuczynski is a graduate student at the University of Washington. Marc's current research interests are operating systems, extensible systems, networking, and intelligent I/O devices.

Threads #3. Low-Level Systems Programming with Modula-3

Allan Heydon is a Member of Research Staff at Digital Systems Research Center. He is currently one of two people responsible for the maintenance of SRC Modula-3. One of Allan's areas of research is in constraint-based drawing with Juno-2 as explored in his series of articles.

Threads #1. Implementing Juno-2: The User Interface, also an editor
Threads #2. A Reusable Software Double-Buffer, also an editor
Threads #3. An Object-Oriented Implementation of Unification Closure, also an editor

Wilson C. Hsieh is an assistant professor at the University of Utah.

Threads #3. Low-Level Systems Programming with Modula-3

Bill Kalsow is a member of technical staff at Critical Mass, Inc.

Threads #2. Editor

Peter Klein is a member of the CS Department III at Aachen University of Technology. His primary research interests are software engineering in general and architecture modeling in particular. Currently, he is working on an architecture description language and corresponding tools for concurrent and distributed systems.

Threads #3. Modula-3 in Academia

Blair MacIntyre is a graduate student at Columbia University.

Threads #3. Critical Mass JVM: Modula-3 Befriends Java

Emon Mortazavi is a Member of Technical Staff at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Threads #2. Editor
Threads #3. Editor

Farshad Nayeri is a member of technical staff at Critical Mass.

Threads #1. Editor
Threads #2. Teaching Computer Science with Modula-3, also an editor
Threads #2. Reactor goes on-line
Threads #3. Critical Mass JVM: Modula-3 Befriends Java, also an editor

Greg Nelson is a Member of Research Staff at Digital Systems Research Center. Aside from his key role as the editor of Systems Programming with Modula-3, he has contributed to the development of various Modula-3 libraries, such as Trestle and Network Objects.

Threads #1. Initialization of Object Types
Threads #2. A Reusable Software Double-Buffer
Threads #2. Why checked runtime errors are not exceptions

Przemyslaw Pardyak is a graduate student at the University of Washington. His current research interests are operating systems, extensible and adaptable systems, and the language and compiler support for them.

Threads #3. Low-Level Systems Programming with Modula-3

Lauren Schmitt is the founder of Critical Mass, Inc. Critical Mass will be the first commercial provider of the Modula-3 language and accompanying support.

Threads #1. Photon: An Environment for Building Distributed Applications , also an editor
Threads #2. Editor
Threads #3. Editor

Emin Gün Sirer is a principal designer and implementor of the SPIN operating system. Gün's current research interests are extensible operating systems, Java security architectures, and high-performance servers.

Threads #3. Low-Level Systems Programming with Modula-3

Bob Sproull is the director of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Chelmsford.

Threads #2. Remembering Geoff Wyant

Carsten Weich teaches at University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He is one of the authors of the book Programming with Modula-3: An Introduction to Programming with Style, ISBN 3-540-57911-7. This book is currently available in German and English.

Threads #1. Modula-3 in Academia, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Geoff Wyant, editor of Threads and a friend of the Modula-3 community, died in a tragic plane accident in June 1996. Geoff was a principal investigator at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he studied the development of large-scale distributed object systems.

Threads #1. Editor
Threads #2. Bob Sproull writes in memory of Geoff Wyant.