Michael B. Greenwald

Stanford University
Computer Science Department
Distributed Systems Group
Ph.D. Candidate, Expected completion date: June 1998


Department of Computer Science
Gates-4A
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-9040

Phone: 650-723-9429
Fax:   650-725-7398
<michaelg .at. cs .dot. stanford .dot. edu>

Experience

1989-Present		Stanford University, Research Assistant
1980-82, 1989-Present		Independent Consultant
1984-1989		Symbolics, Inc., Senior Member of the Technical Staff
1980-1984		MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Sponsored Research Staff
1978-1980		Polaroid Corporation, Corportate Financial Planning and Analysis, Programmer

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1989-1997(expected).
S.B. Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976-1980.

Awards and Fellowships

Rockwell Fellowship, 1989-1995
NSF Fellowship Honorable Mention, 1989-90
New York State Regents Scholarship, 1976
National Merit Scholarship Award Finalist, 1976
Mathematical Association of America Award, 1975

Recent Publications

J. Stone, M. Greenwald, C. Partridge, and J. Hughes. Performance of Checksums and CRCs over Real Data. To appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

M. Greenwald and D.R. Cheriton. The Synergy Between Non-blocking Synchronization and Operating System Structure, Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation. USENIX, Seattle, October, 1996, pp 123-136. compressed PostScript, Hypertext, slides, or abstract.

M. Greenwald. Practical Algorithms for Self Scaling Histograms or Better than Average Data Collection, Proceedings of Performance '96 IFIP, Lausanne, October, 1996, and in Performance Evaluation Volumes 27&28, October 1996, North-Holland, pp 19-40. Elsevier Science B.V. 0166-5316/96 slides or abstract.

M.B. Greenwald, S.K. Singhal, J.R. Stone, and D.R. Cheriton. Designing an Academic Firewall. In OnTheInternet, Vol. 2, No 3, May/June 1996, pp 24-33.

M.B. Greenwald, S.K. Singhal, J.R. Stone, and D.R. Cheriton. Designing an Academic Firewall: Policy, Practice, and Experience With SURF. In Proceedings of the 1996 Internet Society Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, San Diego, CA, February 1996. pp 79-92. Internet Society/IEEE Computer Society. compressed PostScript, Hypertext, or abstract.

Recent Talks

Greenwald, Michael B., "Synchronization (non-blocking) between interrupt handlers and processes", Cisco Systems, Santa Clara, CA, Feb 12, 1998 Abstract

Greenwald, Michael B., "Non-blocking synchronization made practical", Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA, Feb 3, 1998 Abstract

Greenwald, Michael B., "Non-blocking synchronization in Hardware and Software", Sun Microsystems, Sunnyvale, CA, Dec 15, 1997 Abstract

Greenwald, Michael B., "The case for non-blocking synchronization and binary atomic primitives", Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA, Feb 27, 1997 Abstract

Teaching

Co-taught CS244A, "Computer Networks", Spring 94

Taught CS244, "Computer Networks", Summer 93

TA'd CS340, "Distributed Systems", Spring 90

TA'd CS341, "Distributed Systems Lab", Spring 90