RESUME
    
Robert M. Geist III     
    
Department of Computer Science
Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina 29634-1906
phone: 864-656-2258
fax: 864-656-0145
e-mail: rmg@cs.clemson.edu

EDUCATION:

Mathematics:

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 5/74

M.S., University of Notre Dame, 1/73

B.A., Duke University, 6/70

Computer Science:

M.A., Duke University, 12/80

HONORS AND AWARDS:

B.A. degree Summa Cum Laude

Phi Beta Kappa

Pi Mu Epsilon

Phi Eta Sigma

Sigma Xi

Julia Dale Prize in Mathematics, 1970

NSF Traineeship, 1970-1974

Tenure, Mathematics, Pembroke State University, 1978

Tenure, Computer Science, Clemson University, 1984

Best Paper, 2^nd Government Neural Networks Applications Workshop, 1991

Highest-rated Paper, 30^th ACM Southeast Conf., 1992

Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Research, 1994

Faculty Award of Excellence for Achievement in the Sciences, 1997

PUBLICATIONS:

• Geist, R., Westall, J., Tregila, D., and Smotherman, M., ``Real-time, 3-D Graphics for the Linux PC,'' Proc. of the 24<sup>th</sup> Annual Int. Conf. of the Computer Measurement Group (CMG98), Anaheim, California, December, 1998, pp. 863 - 873.
• Flower, A., Geist, R., and Westall, J., ``ATM Device Driver Development in Linux,'' Proc. 4^th Annual Linux Expo, Durham, North Carolina, May, 1998.
• Geist, R., Vernon, D., and Schalkoff, R., ``Rendering Inversion in the Automated Construction of Virtual Environments,'' Proc. 3<sup>rd</sup> ASCE Specialty Conf. on Robotics for Challenging Environments (ROBOTICS '98), Albuquerque, New Mexico, April, 1998, pp. 85 - 91.
• Geist, R., and Westall, J., ``Bringing the High-End to the Low-End: High Performance Device Drivers for the Linux PC,'' Proc. of the 36^th Annual ACM Southeast Conf., Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1998, pp. 251 - 260.
• Geist, R., ``Four-Stage Model for Predicting Creep Behavior,'' ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 124:1(1998) pp. 118 - 120.
• Westall, J., and Geist, R., ``A Hybrid Tool for the Performance Evaluation of NUMA Architectures,'' Proc. 1997 Winter Simulation Conf. (WSC '97), Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1997, pp. 1029 - 1036.
• Geist, R., Schalkoff, R., Stinson, T., and Gurbuz, S., ``Autonomous Virtualization of Real Environments for Telepresence Applications,'' PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 6:6(1997), MIT Press, pp. 645 - 657.
• Geist, R., ``Performance Bounds for Modeling NUMA Architectures,'' Information Processing Letters, 63:2(1997), pp. 113 - 117.
• Geist, R. and Ross, R., ``Disk Scheduling Revisited: Can O(n<sup>2</sup>) Algorithms Compete?'' Proc. of the 35<sup>th</sup> Annual ACM Southeast Conf., Murfreesboro, Tennessee, April, 1997, pp. 51 - 56.
• Geist, R., Chetuparambil, M., Hedetniemi, S., and Turner, A. J., ``Computing Research Programs in the U.S.,'' Communications of the ACM, 39:12(1996), pp. 96 - 99.
• Geist, R., and Westall, J., ``Performance and Availability Evaluation of NUMA Architectures,'' Proc. of the IEEE Int. Computer Performance and Dependability Symp. (IPDS '96), Urbana, Illinois, September, 1996, pp. 271 - 280.
• Geist, R., and Heim, O., ``Towards Photorealism in Virtual Environments,'' Proc. of the 34^th Annual ACM Southeast Conf., Tuskegee, Alabama, April, 1996, pp. 125 - 132.
• Geist, R., Smotherman, M., and Westall, J., ``Performance Evaluation of NUMA Architectures,'' Proc. of the 34<sup>th</sup> Annual ACM Southeast Conf., Tuskegee, Alabama, April, 1996, pp. 78 - 85.
• Geist, R., Junkins, S., and Heim, O., ``Color Representation in Virtual Environments,'' Color Research and Application, 21 (1996) pp. 121 - 128; abstract also appears in: Proc. 1^st ISCC Pan-Chromatic Conf., Williamsburg, Virginia, February, 1995, p. 35.
• Geist, R., and Westall, J., ``Disk Scheduling in Linux,'' Proc. of the 20<sup>th</sup> Annual Int. Conf. of the Computer Measurement Group (CMG94), Orlando, Florida, December, 1994, pp. 739-746.
• Geist, R., Crane, D., Daniel, S. and Suggs, D., ``Systems Modeling with Xpetri,'' Proc. 1994 Winter Simulation Conf. (WSC '94), Orlando, Florida, December, 1994, pp. 611-618.
• Junkins, S., Geist, R., and Crane, D., ``Photorealism in PHIGS'', Proc. of the 32<sup>nd</sup> Annual ACM Southeast Conf., Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March, 1994, pp. 269-277.
• Tomek, L., Mainkar, V., Geist, R., and Trivedi, K.,``Reliability Modeling of Life-Critical, Real-Time Systems,'' Proceedings of the IEEE, 82 (1994), pp. 108-121.
• Geist, R., Suggs, D., and Reynolds, R., ``Minimizing Mean Seek Distance in Mirrored Disk Systems by Cylinder Remapping,'' Performance Evaluation, 20 (1994), pp. 97-114; also appears in: Proc. of the 16<sup>th</sup> IFIP Int. Symposium on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement, and Evaluation (PERFORMANCE '93), Rome, Italy, September, 1993, pp. 91-108.
• Geist, R., and Trivedi, K., ``An Analytic Treatment of the Performance and Reliability of Mirrored Disk Subsystems,'' Proc. of the 23^rd IEEE Int. Symp. on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-23), Toulouse, France, June, 1993, pp. 442-450.
• Geist, R., Reynolds, R., and Suggs, D., ``A Markovian Framework for Digital Halftoning,'' ACM Trans. on Graphics, 12(1993), pp. 136-159.
• Geist, R., and Suggs, D., ``Neural Networks for the Design of Distributed, Fault-Tolerant, Computing Environments,'' Proc. of the 11^th IEEE Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems, Houston, Texas, October, 1992, pp. 189-195.
• Geist, R., Suggs, D., Reynolds, R., Divatia, S., Harris, F., Foster, E., and Kolte, P., ``Disk Performance Enhancement through Markov-based Cylinder Remapping,'' Proc. of the 30<sup>th</sup> Annual ACM Southeast Conf., Raleigh, North Carolina, April, 1992, pp. 23-28. (Highest-rated Paper)
• Geist, R., Offutt, A. J., and Harris, F.,``Estimation and Enhancement of Real-Time Software Reliability through Mutation Analysis,'' IEEE Trans. on Comp., Special Issue on Fault-Tolerant Computing, 41 (1992), pp. 550-558.
• Geist, R.,``Neural Networks for Visual Quantization Encoding,'' Proc. of the 2<sup>nd</sup> Government Neural Network Applications Workshop, Huntsville, Alabama, September, 1991. Award: Best Paper
• Geist, R., ``Extended Behavioral Decomposition for Estimating Ultrahigh Reliability,'' IEEE Trans. on Reliab., 40 (1991), pp. 22-28.
• Geist, R., Reynolds, R., and Suggs, D., ``Application of Feedback Networks to the Solution of Massive Markov Processes,'' Proc. Fall 1990 Annual Mtg. of the Biomedical Engineering Soc., Blacksburg, Virginia, October, 1990, pp. 275-284.
• Geist, R., and Trivedi, K., ``Reliability Estimation of Fault-Tolerant Systems: Tools and Techniques,'' IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Fault-Tolerant Computing, 23 (1990), pp. 52-61; also appears in: Suri, N., Walter, C., and Hugue, M. Advances in Ultra-Dependable Distributed Systems, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, Los Alamitos, California, 1994.
• Geist, R., Smotherman, M., and Talley, R., ``Modeling Recovery Time Distributions in Fault-Tolerant Systems,'' Proc. of the 20<sup>th</sup> IEEE Int. Symp. on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-20), New Castle Upon Tyne, England, June, 1990, pp. 499-504.
• Geist, R., and Reynolds, R., ``Colored Noise Inversion in Digital Halftoning,'' Proc. of Graphics Interface '90 (GI '90), Halifax, Nova Scotia, May, 1990, pp. 31-38.
• Geist, R., Pargas, R., and Khambekar, P., ``Digital Halftoning by Parallel Simulation of Neural Networks,'' Proc. of the Fifth Distributed Memory Computing Conf. (5DMCC), Charleston, SC, April, 1990, pp. 165-170.
• Smotherman, M., and Geist, R., ``Phased Mission Effectiveness Using a Nonhomogeneous Markov Reward Model,''Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 27(1990), pp. 241-255.
• Geist, R., and Reynolds, R., ``The Most Likely Steady State for Large Numbers of Stochastic Traveling Salesmen,'' Proc. of the First Int. Workshop on Numerical Solution of Markov Chains, Raleigh, North Carolina, January, 1990, pp. 569-581; also appears in: Numerical Solution of Markov Chains, W. Stewart ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1991, Chapter 28, pp. 529-541.
• Geist, R., Smotherman, M., and Brown, M., ``Ultrahigh Reliability Estimates for Systems Exhibiting Globally Time-Dependent Failure Processes,'' Proc. of the 19^th IEEE Int. Symp. on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-19), Chicago, Illinois, June, 1989, pp. 152-158.
• Geist, R., and Smotherman, M., ``Ultrahigh Reliability Estimates Through Simulation,'' Proc. of the Annual Reliab. and Maintainability Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, January, 1989, pp. 350-355.
• Geist, R., Reynolds, R., and Westall, J., ``Selection of a Checkpoint Interval in a Critical Task Environment,'' IEEE Trans. on Reliab., 37 (1988) pp. 395-400.
• Geist, R., Smotherman, M., Trivedi, K., and Dugan, J., ``The Use of Weibull Fault Processes in Modeling Fault Tolerant Systems,'' AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 11 (1988), pp. 91-93.
• Geist, R. M., and Daniel, S. W., ``A Continuum of Disk Scheduling Algorithms,'' ACM Trans. on Comp. Sys., 5 (1987), pp. 77-92. (See also: review by S. Chanson, ACM Computing Reviews, 28 (1987).)
• Atkins, J., and Geist, R. M., ``Fibonacci Numbers and Computer Algorithms,'' The College Mathematics Journal, 18 (1987), pp. 328-336.
• Geist, R., Reynolds, R., and Pittard, E., ``Disk Scheduling in System V,'' Proc. of the ACM SIGMETRICS Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Banff, Alberta, May, 1987, pp. 59-68.
• Geist, R., Allen, R., and Nowaczyk, R., ``Towards a Model of User Perception of Computer System Response Time,'' Proc. of the ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI + GI '87), Toronto, Ontario, April, 1987, pp. 249-253.
• Geist, R., Stevenson, D., and Allen, R., ``The Perceived Effect of Breakdown and Repair on the Performance of Multiprocessor Systems,'' Performance Evaluation, 6 (1986), pp. 249-260.
• Geist, R., Smotherman, M., Trivedi, K., and Dugan, J., ``The Reliability of Life-Critical Computer Systems,'' Acta Informatica, 23 (1986), pp. 621-642.
• Dugan, J., Trivedi, K., Smotherman, M., and Geist, R., ``The Hybrid Automated Reliability Predictor,'' AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 9 (1986), pp. 319-331.
• Smotherman, M., Geist, R., and Trivedi, K., ``Provably Conservative Approximations to Complex Reliability Models,'' IEEE Trans. on Comp., Special Issue on Fault-Tolerant Computing C-35 (1986), pp. 333-338.
• Allen, R., Geist, R., and Nowaczyk, R., ``User Distortions of Computer System Response Time in an Interactive Environment,'' Proc. of the 24^th Annual ACM Southeast Conf., Tampa, Florida, April, 1986, pp. 33-38.
• Ng, M. M., and Geist, R. M., ``The Perceived Effect of System File Placement on the Waiting Time of Customers in a Batch Environment,'' Proc. of the 24<sup>th</sup> Annual ACM Southeast Conf., Tampa, Florida, April, 1986, pp. 17-23.
• Trivedi, K. S., and Geist, R. M., ``Modeling and Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Multiple Processor Systems,'' Proc. of AUTOMATION '86, Houston, Texas, March, 1986, pp. 400-416; also appears in: Handbook of Advanced Semiconductor Technology and Computer Systems, G. Rabbat ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1988, pp. 776-796.
• Trivedi, K., Dugan, J., Geist, R., and Smotherman, M., ``Hybrid Reliability Modeling of Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems,'' Computers and Electrical Engineering, Special Issue on Reliability and Verification of Computing Systems, 11 (1984), pp. 87-108. (See also: review by W. S. Lai, ACM Computing Reviews, 27 (1986).)
• Wagner, R. A., and Geist, R. M., ``The Crippled Queen Placement Problem,'' The Science of Computer Programming, 4 (1984), pp 221-248.
• Geist, R. M., ``How to Live to Be 100,'' The College Mathematics Journal, 15 (1984), pp. 256-263.
• Geist, R. M., ``Perception-Based Configuration Design of Computer Systems,'' Information Processing Letters, 18 (1984), pp. 55-57.
• Dugan, J., Trivedi, K., Geist, R., and Nicola, V., ``Extended Stochastic Petri Nets: Applications and Analysis,'' Proc. of the 10<sup>th</sup> IFIP Int. Symposium on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement, and Evaluation (PERFORMANCE '84), Paris, France, December, 1984, pp. 507-519.
• Trivedi, K., Geist, R., Dugan, J., and Smotherman, M., ``Issues in Reliability Modeling of Fault-Tolerant Computers,'' Proc. of the 2^nd GI/NTG/GMR Conf. on Fault-Tolerant Computing Systems, Bonn, West Germany, September, 1984, pp. 228-239.
• Geist, R., Trivedi, K., Dugan, J., and Smotherman, M., ``Modeling Imperfect Coverage in Fault-Tolerant Systems,'' Proc. of the 14<sup>th</sup> IEEE Int. Symp. on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-14), Orlando, Florida, June, 1984, pp. 77-82.
• Geist, R., and Trivedi, K., ``Hybrid Modeling Techniques and Their Application to Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems,'' Proc. of the 15^th Annual Pittsburgh Modeling and Simulation Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April, 1984, pp. 783-787.
• Geist, R. M., ``Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing, and Computer Science Applications. By K. S. Trivedi. Prentice-Hall, 1982." American Mathematical Monthly, 91 (1984), pp. 323-324 (invited review).
• Geist, R. M., and Trivedi, K. S., ``Ultrahigh Reliability Prediction for Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems,'' IEEE Trans. on Comp., C-32 (1983), pp. 1118-1127.
• Trivedi, K. S., and Geist, R. M., ``Decomposition in Reliability Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems,'' IEEE Trans. on Reliab., R-32 (1983), pp. 463-468.
• Geist, R. Trivedi, K., Dugan, J., and Smotherman, M., ``Design of the Hybrid Automated Reliability Predictor,'' Proc. of the IEEE/AIAA 5^th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Seattle, Washington, November, 1983, pp. 16.5.1-16.5.8.
• Geist, R. M., ``Student-Down System Design,'' Proc. of the National Educational Computing Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, June, 1983, pp. 360-363.
• Geist, R. M., and Trivedi, K. S., ``The Integration of User Perception in the Heterogeneous M/M/2 Queue,'' Proc. of the 9^th IFIP Int. Symposium on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement, and Evaluation (PERFORMANCE '83), College Park, Maryland, May, 1983, pp. 203-216.
• Daniel, S. W., and Geist, R. M., ``V-SCAN: An Adaptive Disk Scheduling Algorithm,'' Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Computer Systems Organization, New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 1983, pp. 96-103.
• Geist, R. M., and Trivedi, K. S., ``Optimal Design of Multilevel Storage Hierarchies,'' IEEE Trans. on Comp., C-31 (1982), pp. 249-260.
• Geist, R. M., and Trivedi, K. S., ``Queueing Network Models in Computer System Design,'' Mathematics Magazine, 55 (1982), pp. 67-80.
• Geist, R., Kraines, D., and Fink, P., ``Natural Language Computing in a Linear Algebra Course,'' Proc. of the National Educational Computing Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, June, 1982, pp. 203-208.
• Connolly, F. X., and Geist, R. M., ``On Extending Free Group Actions on Spheres and a Conjecture of Iwasawa,'' Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 274 (1982), pp. 631-640.
• Geist, R. M., ``Response to Query #4,'' TYCMJ, 11 (1980), pg. 126.
• Geist, R. M., ``Semicharacteristic Detection of Obstructions to Rational Homotopy Equivalence,'' General Topology and Its Applications, 7 (1977), pp. 185-199.

PATENT:

• U.S. Patent #5638190, Context Sensitive Color Quantization System and Method, 1997.

GRANTS (PI or co-PI):

• Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films, NSF (ERC), $12,000,000, August, 1998 - July, 2003.
• Virtual Servoing of Serpentine Robots for Enhanced Manipulation NSF (EPSCoR), $400,000, January, 1999 - December, 2000.
• SCINET: High Speed Connection, NSF (CISE/NCR), $350,000, October, 1998 - November, 2000.
• Collaborative Vehicle Design Framework, U.S. Army Tank Command (TACOM), $463,157, December, 1997 - March, 1999.
• Modeling, Simulation, and Virtualization of Physical Phenomena, NSF (MRI), $500,000, August, 1997 - July, 2000.
• A Linux Workstation for High-Performance Graphics, NASA Ames Research Center, $148,056, January, 1997 - December, 1999.
• ATM Network Support for the Linux Operating System, IBM Corp., $57,914, January, 1997 - December, 1997.
• Advanced Sensing and Control Techniques to Facilitate Semi-Autonomous Decommissioning of Hazardous Sites, U.S. Dept. of Energy, $870,733, September, 1996 - September, 1999.
• AViiON Systems Performance Analysis, Data General Corporation, $208,632, August, 1992 - March, 1999.
• Multi-threaded, Asynchronous Execution of Extended Stochastic Petri Nets, Data General Corporation, AViiON AV550 Dual MC88110 Workstation (equipment, U.S. list $34,410), June, 1994.
• A Multi-College Initiative: Virtual Reality Systems in Undergraduate Education, $236,601, CU Innovation Fund, January, 1994 - December, 1996.
• Towards a Theory of Hierarchical Modeling, NSF (CCR), $99,398, September, 1991 - February, 1994.
• Parallel Algorithms for the Steiner Tree Problem, Clemson Univ. Center for Computer Communications Systems, $4,625, August, 1993 - December, 1993.
• Disk Subsystem Performance Enhancement, Data General Corporation, AViiON 5120 Dual Processor Server and HADA (disk array) System (equipment, U.S. list $22,150), January, 1993.
• ARTS: Artificial Rendering of Theatrical Settings, Clemson Univ. Research Grant, $3000, January, 1991 - June, 1991.
• Markov-Based Enhancement of Image Information Content, SUN Microsystems, SUN 4/330 Workstation (equipment, U.S. list $69,540), September, 1990.
• Processor Scheduling in the Multiprocessor UNIX Environment, Data General Corporation, AViiON 4000 Dual Processor Workstation (equipment, U.S. list $24,690), September, 1990.
• Automated Behavioral Decomposition in Ultrahigh Reliability Estimation, Clemson Univ. Center for Computer Communications Systems, $6,000, May, 1990 - August, 1990.
• Behavioral Integration of Modeling Systems with Application to Agroclimatic Prediction, AT&T, 2 3B2/1000 Multiprocessor Systems (equipment, U.S. list $264,400), August, 1989.
• Software Reliability for Real-Time Control Systems, NASA Langley Research Center, $20,000, August, 1989 - October, 1990.
• Sufficiency and Necessity in Reliability Modeling, NASA Langley Research Center, $110,000, April, 1987 - August, 1990.
• Modeling and Analysis of Parallel Processing Systems, Concurrent Computer Corporation, MC6700 Multiprocessor System (equipment, U.S. list $220,000), February, 1989.
• Computer System Configuration Design, AT&T, 3B2/310 System (equipment, U.S. list $31,475), January, 1989.
• The Disk Scheduling Problem, Clemson URI Program in Discrete Mathematics and Computational Analysis (ONR), $8,000, June, 1988 - August, 1988.
• Budget Ray Tracing, Clemson University Provost Research Award, $2,000, July, 1988 - June, 1989.
• Use of Two-Parameter Failure Distributions in Reliability Modeling, NASA Langley Research Center, $54,000 (travel grant and student fellowship for R. Talley), August, 1987 - August, 1990.
• A Modeling Tool for Improved Product Design, NCR Corp., $28,581, July, 1986 - June, 1987.
• HARP: Towards Phase III, NASA Langley Research Center, $54,000 (travel grant and student fellowship for M. Brown), August, 1986 - August, 1989.
• Cost Effectiveness in Solution Techniques for HARP Models, NASA Langley Research Center, $18,218, October, 1985 - September, 1986.
• Numerical Issues in the Design of the Hybrid Automated Reliability Predictor, NASA Langley Research Center, $22,800, October, 1984 - September, 1985.
• Perception-Based Configuration Design of Computer Systems, AT&T, 3B2/300 System (equipment, U.S. list $24,358), December, 1984.
• Computer Systems Modeling, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, 3230 System (equipment, U.S. list $233,250), November, 1984.
• Design of the Hybrid Automated Reliability Predictor, NASA Langley Research Center, $135,000, October, 1982 - September, 1984.
• Evaluation of CARE III, NASA Langley Research Center, $39,990, January, 1981 - October, 1981.

EMPLOYMENT:

		8/87 - present:		Professor of Computer Science, Clemson University 
    


1/84 - 7/87:		Associate Professor of Computer Science, Clemson University 
    


7/83 - 12/83:		Associate Professor of Computer Science, Duke University 
    


1/81 - 6/83:		Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Duke University 
    


7/80 - 12/80:		Research Associate in Computer Science, Duke University 
    


8/77 - 6/80:		Associate Professor of Mathematics, Pembroke State University 
    


1/77 - 6/77:		Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of NorthCarolina 

at Chapel Hill (on leave from Pembroke State University) 
    


9/74 - 8/77:		Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Pembroke State University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Mathematics:

Introduction to College Mathematics

College Algebra

Trigonometry

Finite Mathematics

Introduction to Statistics

Calculus I, II, Intermediate, Advanced I, II

Point Set Theory

Linear Algebra

Probability and Statistics I, II

Abstract Algebra I, II

Dynamical Systems

Computer Science:

Introduction to Data Processing

Introduction to Programming

Programming Methodology

Data Structures

Introduction to Operating Systems

Introduction to Computer Graphics

Advanced Modeling Techniques in Computer Graphics (graduate)

Virtual Reality Systems

Mathematical Methods for Systems Analysis I, II (graduate)

Systems Modeling (graduate)

Operating System Design (graduate)

OTHER RELATED ACTIVITY:

Associate Editor, The College Mathematics Journal, 1984 - 1985

Editorial Board, Performance Evaluation (North-Holland), 1999 - present

Program Chair and Proceedings Editor:

• 28^th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Greenville, SC, 1990
• 33^rd Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Clemson, SC, 1995
• 3^rd IEEE Int. Performance and Dependability Symp., Durham, NC, 1998

Lecturer, Applications of Probability Theory to the Analysis and Design of Computer Systems (an MAA minicourse), Annual Summer Meeting of the AMS-MAA, Eugene, Oregon, August, 1984.

Editorial Consultant, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 1981-1982

Referee, journals:

IEEE Trans. on Comp.

IEEE Trans. on Reliab.

IEEE Trans. on Software Eng.

IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Sys.

IEEE Computer

Proc. of the IEEE

JACM

ACM Trans. on Comp. Sys.

ACM Trans. on Graphics

ACM Computing Surveys

ORSA Journal on Computing

Performance Evaluation

Stochastic Models

Software Practice & Experience

Math. Magazine

Am. Math. Monthly

Jour. of Pure and Applied Algebra

Simulation

Int. Jour. of Parallel Programming

IBM Jour. of Research and Development

Real-Time Systems

The Visual Computer

Referee, annual conferences:

IEEE International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS).

IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems.

IFIP International Symposium on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement,
and Evaluation (PERFORMANCE).

ACM Sigmetrics Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems.

ACM Siggraph Annual Conference (Computer Graphics).

National Educational Computing Conference.

ACM Southeast Conference.

Reviewer, NSF, ARO

Reviewer, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition

Chair, panel discussion, Reliability Modeling of Life-Critical Systems: Current Capabilities and Future Needs, FTCS-17, Pittsburgh, 1987

Chair, panel of judges, ACM Southeast Conf. Student Paper Competition, 1992

Member, Program Committee:

• 11^th IFIP Int. Symp. on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement, and Evaluation (PERFORMANCE '86), 1986.
• 12^th IEEE Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems, 1993.
• IEEE Int. Computer Performance and Dependability Symp. (IPDS), 1995, 1996, 1998.
• ACM Sigmetrics Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 1996.
• IEEE Int. Fault-Tolerant Computing Symp. (FTCS-27) 1997.

Consultant, industry:

Garrett Turbine Engine Corp., Phoenix, AZ, 1986-1988, 1991

Joliet Metallurgical Laboratories, Joliet, IL, 1981-1999

Sheldons Manufacturing Corporation, Elgin, IL, 1983-1984

Morganite Incorporated, Dunn, NC, 1981

M.S. and Ph.D. students:

1999:

R. Danforth

1998:

D. H. Vernon, D. Treglia II, A. P. VanPernis (1^st place, ACM SE student paper competition, 1999)

1997:

C. S. Marshall, W. T. Stinson, M. K. Chetuparambil

1996:

K. L. Adams, O. A. Heim

1995:

A. B. Smith, L. E. Postner

1994:

D. E. Crane

1993:

J. S. Junkins, D. G. Suggs (1^st place, ACM SE student paper competition, 1990),
W. R. Reynolds (1^st place, ACM SE student paper competition, 1987, 1988)

1992:

J. M. Hanks

1991:

F. C. Harris, C. L. Dove

1990:

C. G. Reynolds

1989:

V. E. Rao, C. L. Wilson, W. G. Crosmun

1988:

R. S. Shore, M. L. Brown, R. A. Allen

1987:

M. P. Beede, (1^st place co-winner, ACM SE student paper competition, 1987)

1986:

E. L. Pittard, M. M. Ng

1985:

J. L. Richards

1981:

S. W. Daniel

Member, ACM, IEEE Comp. Society