The Persistent Programming Systems Research Group

Secure Software Systems Laboratory

Opportunities:
There are many opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to work in the PPS group
both for credit via independent study (CS 490/590) and with funding.
Interested students should contact Dr Hosking .

Principal Investigator: Tony Hosking

Papers

Students:

  • Tom Vandrunen
  • Adam Welc
  • Chapman Flack
  • Marin Markov

    • Graduates:

  • David Whitlock
  • Jiawan Chen
  • Kumar Brahnmath
  • Nate Nystrom
  • Nedim Fresko

    • Interests:

    The Persistent Programming Systems Research Group has interests in the following areas:
  • programming language design and implementation
  • compilation, interpretation, and optimization
  • runtime systems (e.g., garbage collection)
  • object-oriented database systems
  • database and persistent programming languages and systems
  • architectural and operating system support for language runtime systems
  • mobile computing, mobile data and mobile computation
  • experimental performance evaluation of prototype systems

    • Projects:

  • DaCapo
  • Persistent Modula-3
  • Optimizing Orthogonal Persistence for Java

    • Software:

  • BLOAT: Bytecode-Level Optimization and Analysis Tool for Java
  • Persistent Modula-3

    • hosking@acm.org