Networking, object-oriented distributed computing, parallel and distributed systems, and performance analysis.
| Ph.D. | 1987 | Electrical Engineering, Old Dominion University |
| M.S. | 1982 | Computer Engineering, Syracuse University |
Middleware for Building Distributed Application Infrastructure; NASA Report NAS-97-026, 1997; (w/ McNab, D., and Tweten, D. at NASA). A summary of this work is featured in a recent NASA News article, Middleware Study Sets Foundation for Building a Distributed Applications Infrastructure, 1998.
"Performance Evaluation of Communication Software Systems for Distributed Computing", Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 169-175, 1997. An early version of the paper appeared as a NASA Report, NAS-96-006, 1996.
"Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks for Distributed Computing", Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 456-459, 1995. An early version of the paper appeared as a NASA Report, NAS-95-009, 1995.
1988 - 1996, Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center