Teaching Schedule (Fall 2009)
CS142, Web Applications
MWF 11-11:50, Building 370, Room 370
Recent Courses
Research Interests
I am interested in a wide range of topics
related to infrastructure for building software systems, including
development frameworks, programming
languages, operating systems, and storage systems. My current
projects are RAMCloud,
a new approach to storage where all information is kept in DRAM and
large-scale storage systems are created by aggregating the memories
of thousands of servers, and
Fiz, a new development
framework for Web applications.
Biography
John Ousterhout received a BS in Physics from Yale University
in 1975 and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
in 1980.
From 1980-1994 he was a Professor of Computer Science at the
University of California, Berkeley. His research projects included
design tools for integrated circuits such as the Magic layout editor
and the Crystal timing analyzer, the Sprite network
operating system, log-structured file systems, and the
Tcl scripting language and Tk toolkit.
In 1994 John left Berkeley to fulfill a long-standing desire to build
commercial software. From 1994-1998 he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories. In 1998 he founded Scriptics Corporation
to commercialize Tcl development tools, where he was CEO until 2000.
In 2002 he founded Electric Cloud,
where he worked until 2007. At Electric Cloud he led the development
of a parallel build system (ElectricAccelerator) and a Web-based
server for managing distributed processes such as nightly builds
and automated tests (ElectricCommander).
In 2008 John returned to academia as Professor (Research) in the
Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.
Ousterhout is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
and a Fellow of the ACM. He has won numerous awards, including the
ACM Software System Award,
the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the National Science Foundation
Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the U.C. Berkeley
Distinguished Teaching Award.
Selected Publications
- Ousterhout, J., "Scripting:
Higher-Level Programming for the 21st Century,"
IEEE Computer, Vol. 31, No. 3, March 1998, pp. 23-30.
- Ousterhout, J., Tcl and the Tk Toolkit,
Addison-Wesley, Reading Massachusetts, 1994, 460 pages.
- Rosenblum, M. and Ousterhout, J., "The
Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System,"
ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, February 1992, pp. 26-52.
- Ousterhout, J., "Why Aren't
Operating Systems Getting Faster
as Fast as Hardware?," Proc. USENIX Summer Conference,
June 1990, pp. 247-256.
- Nelson, M., Welch, B., and Ousterhout, J., "Caching in the
Sprite Network File System," ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, February 1988, pp. 134-154.
- Ousterhout, J., Da Costa, H., Harrison, D., Kunze, J.,
Kupfer, M., and Thompson, J., "A Trace-Driven Analysis of the
UNIX 4.2 BSD File System," Proc. 10th ACM Symposium on
Operating Systems Principles, December 1985, pp. 15-24.
- Ousterhout, J., "A Switch-Level Timing Verifier for Digital MOS VLSI,"
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, Vol. CAD-4,
No. 3, July 1985, pp. 336-349.
- Ousterhout, J., "Corner Stitching: A Data Structuring Technique
for VLSI Layout Tools," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design,
Vol. CAD-3, No. 1, January 1984, pp. 87-100.
- Ousterhout, J., "Scheduling Techniques for Concurrent Systems,"
Proc. 3rd International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems, October 1982, pp. 22-30.
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