My origins, like those of most people born in North America during this
century, are ambiguous and questionable. I am currently a Professor in
the Computer
Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
which is, of course, located in Goleta California for all intents and purposes
that do not involve the U.S. Mail.
My past is checkered (it used to be plaid, but I've been politely informed that
a past can only be so retro).
Formerly, I enjoyed the hospitable climes offered by the
Computer Science Department at
the University of Tennessee. I've also
done time as
research faculty
member in the
U.C. San Diego CS&E Department
where I researched CS and a little E (every now and then) in a decidedly
pedagogical manner.
My research interests include, but are not limited to,
Computational Grid computing for performance,
parallel and distributed systems, and the endless metaphysical search for
the perfect coffee cup.
This quarter, Pedagogy T.V. presents another compelling season of CS170: Operating
Systems, Up-close and Personal. Screenings will take place Mondays and
Wednesdays in Phelps
3519 from 9:30 AM until 10:50 AM.
Researchwise, my most recent endeavors include
- Eucalyptus -- an open-source
implementation of cloud computing that can emulate Amazon's EC2 on your own
resources
,
- the Network Weather Service,
- EveryWare -- a toolkit for building high-performance globally
distributed programs, and
- G-Commerce -- market-based resource allocation strategies for the Grid.
For enriching insights into their often obscure purposes, please see my
publications page
(that is now up-to-date despite a long hiatus in its up-to-dateness)
where a copy of my vita can also be found.
Please attend the UCSB Computer
Science and Computer Engineering Capstone Presentations on Thursday, June
5th. The projects this year are tuly stellar. If you want to see what the
future of computer science and computer engineering will look like you need to
be there to see what graduating undergraduates do when they explore the
cutting edge.
I'm also extremely fortunate to be able to collaborate with a number
of extraordinary research groups including
The Intrepid and Often Deranged Members of my Group
They are not generally dangerous (okay -- some are),
but it does help to smile a lot when emailing them.
Those studying Middleware and Applications Yielding
Heterogeneous Environments for Metacomputing are
There are also MAYHEM almuni:
Weather at my
house
rich@cs.ucsb.edu
Phone: 805-893-3319
Fax: 805-893-8553
