Dr. Cytron is a Professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis, where his research
interests include automatic program optimization and transformation
(especially of network software and middleware), voting strategies
suitable for the Internet, and storage-management systems suitable for
object-oriented programs. He received a B.S. in electrical
engineering from Rice University in 1980. His graduate studies at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign resulted in an M.S. in 1982
and a Ph.D. in 1984, both in computer science. Dr. Cytron was a
Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center from
1984 until 1993.
Dr. Levine was the Director of the Center for Distributed Object Computing in
the Computer Science Department
at Washington University,
St. Louis. He received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine,
the M.S.E.E./C.S. from George Washington University, and the B.S.M.E.
from Cornell University. His current research interests include
testing and performance analysis of real-time systems, and scheduling
of distributed real-time systems. In addition, Dr. Levine has
contributed substantial amounts to the ADAPTIVE Communication
Environment (ACE) framework and The ACE ORB (TAO). Dr. Levine has extensive industry
experience developing software for broadband telecommunications,
high-fidelity electro-optic sensor system simulation, and both
electric/hybrid and internal combustion engine vehicle applications.
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the District of
Columbia.
Chris is an Assistant Professor at Washington University who joined
the DOC group from Southwestern Bell. He has ported ACE to the pSoS
real-time operating system and has implemented a strategized
scheduling service for TAO. His Ph.D. focused on a middleware
framework for dynamic and
adaptive
resource management in embedded and real-time distributed object
computing systems.
Andy is an Associate Professor in the EECS Department and a
Senior Researcher in the Institute for Software Intensive
Systems at Vanderbilt
University. As a Ph.D. student at Washington University, Andy
conducted a substantial amount of work developing benchmarks for CORBA performance over ATM
networks. His Ph.D. research contributed many components to TAO -- most notably the various Object Adapter
demultiplexing strategies, IIOP optimizations, and the TAO IDL
compiler. Andy received his Ph.D. in 1998 and worked as a member of
the research staff for Bell Labs at Murray Hill.
Jeff graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Washington
University and is a full-time staff member in the DOC group at
Washington University working on TAO's IDL compiler, its Interface
Repository, and many other odds and ends. As an undergrad, Jeff
provided the original TAO Dynamic Any implementation, as well as a
DII/DSI application using TAO. He also developed an extensive
regression IDL compiler test suite to validate TAO's features. In
addition to being a full-time staff member, Jeff is a CS Masters grad
student at Washington University.
Jai is a graduate student at ISIS where he is working on adding
adding load balancing to TAO, component swapping, and a resource
allocation and control engine for CIAO.
Kitty is a graduate student at ISIS where he is working on
domain-specific modeling languages for the CORBA Component Model
(CCM).
Vanderbilt University Director
Washington University Director
Former Washington University Director
Affiliated Faculty and Full-time Staff
Doctoral Students
In addition to Jeff Parsons, whom is a full-time staff and a
doctoral student, the DOC group has the following doctoral students:
MS Students