Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!ginosko!uunet!pdn!dinsdale!reggie From: reggie@dinsdale.nm.paradyne.com (George W. Leach) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: CS Ph. D. program Message-ID: <6665@pdn.paradyne.com> Date: 17 Oct 89 12:57:24 GMT References: <160@seqp4.UUCP> Sender: usenet@pdn.paradyne.com Reply-To: reggie@dinsdale.paradyne.com (George W. Leach) Organization: AT&T Suncoast Division, Largo FL Lines: 272 Mike, Twice I sent this via e-mail and twice it was bounced back! In article <160@seqp4.UUCP> you write: >Having worked in industry for 5 years after receiving a Masters in C.S. >I have just started taking part-time grad courses in CS at a local university. >I've now decided to apply for full-time status as a Ph.D. student though I >am not sure where I should I apply. I am interested in a 'Systems' type >program. My main field of expertise is database systems. I am also >interested in distributed systems, parallel computing, and software >engineering. I am looking for suggestions of schools to look into, >especially schools on the East Coast. I already have info on >MIT, and CMU. Thanks in advance. Well, databases made me think of Cal Berkeley. The home of Ingres. Larry Rowe (larry@postgres.berkeley.edu) and Michael Stonebraker are now working on Postgres, which is attempting to integrate data, object, and knowledge management into a DBMS. Cal Berkeley is one of the top ranked programs in the country, often spoken of in the same breath as MIT and CMU. Then there is the Oregon Graduate Center. Jacob Stein and David Maier have been working on Object-oriented databases there. Servio Logic is a commercial venture that has sprung out of their work. Try contacting David Maier (ogcvax!maier). On the east coast, there is the COINS Project at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Try contacting either Eliot Moss (Moss@cs.umass.edu) or Steven Sinofsky (Sinofsky@cs.umass.edu). There is also the RAID Project at Purdue University. RAID is a distributed database system. Contact Bharat Bhargava (bb@cs.purdue.edu). Va-On Tam has been investigating distributed databases using distributed shared memory (which seems to be a hot topic in distributed operating systems literature these days). He is at Harvard University (tam@harvard.edu). Distributed and parallel computing opens up a number of possibilities. I just so happen to have a list I compiled of mostly distributed operating system projects. Here it is: PROJECT: HCS CONTACT: David Notkin (notkin@cs.washington.edu) Department of Computer Science, FR-35 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 545-3798 PROJECT: Hyper UNIX CONTACT: Kurt Zeilenga (zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov) Parallel Processing Research Group Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 PROJECT: Sprite CONTACT: Fred Douglis (douglis@ginger.Berkeley.EDU) John Ousterhout (ouster@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu) (spriters@ginger.Berkeley.EDU) Computer Science Division 571 Evans Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 (415) 642-0865 PROJECT: ISIS CONTACT: Ken Birman (ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu) Department of Computer Science 4105 Upson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 (607) 255-9199 PROJECT: V CONTACT: David Cheriton (cheriton@cs.stanford.edu) Tony Mason (mason@pescadero.stanford.edu) Distributed Systems Group Stanford University PROJECT: Parallel OS CONTACT: Bob Bruce (rab@mimsy.umd.edu) University of Maryland Laboratory for Parallel Computation Department of Computer Science College Park, MD 20742 PROJECT: Synthesis CONTACT: Calton Pu (calton@cs.columbia.edu) Department of Computer Science Columbia University New York, NY 10027 (212) 280-8110 PROJECT: Symunix 2 CONTACT: Jan Edler (edler@nyu.edu) New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012 (212) 998-3353 PROJECT: Saguaro CONTACT: Richard D. Schlichting (rick@arizona.edu) Department of Computer Science The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 PROJECT: Psyche CONTACT: Michael L. Scott (scott@cs.rochester.edu) (716) 275-7745 Thomas J. LeBlanc (leblanc@cs.rochester.edu) (716) 275-5426 Department of Computer Science University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 PROJECT: Cosmos CONTACT: John Nicol (john@computing.lancaster.ac.uk) (cosmos@comp.lancs.ac.uk) The COSMOS Research Group Department of Computing University of Lancaster Bailrigg Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UNITED KINGDOM +44 (0) 524 65201 Ext 4145, 4146 PROJECT: ? CONTACT: Darrell Long (darrell@spica.ucsc.edu) University of California San Diego, CA PROJECT: Trillium CONTACT: Greg Burns (gdburns@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu) Cornell Theory Center 265 Olin Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-5201 PROJECT: Mach CONTACT: Rick Rashid (rashid@cs.cmu.edu) (mach@cs.cmu.edu) Department of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 268-2617 PROJECT: Avalon CONTACT: Pamela Reyner Scott (REYNER@CS.CMU.EDU) Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department Schenley Park Pittsburgh, PA 15213 PROJECT: Allegro CONTACT: Mark A. Linton (linton@lurch.stanford.edu) Center for Integrated Systems, Rm. 213, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 PROJECT: Clouds CONTACT: Richard LeBlanc (rich@gatech.edu) School of ICS Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 -or- Gene Spafford (spaf@purdue.edu) Department of Computer Science Purdue University PROJECT: Argus CONTACT: Barbara Liskov (liskov@lcs.mit.edu) MIT Laboratory for Computer Sciences 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 PROJECT: Mercury CONTACT: William Weihl (weihl@xx.lcs.mit.edu) MIT Laboratory for Computer Sciences 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-6030 PROJECT: ? CONTACT: Va-On Tam (tam@harvard.edu) Meichun Hsu Center for Research in Computing Technology Aiken Computation Lab 33 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 PROJECT: Linda CONTACT: David Gelernter (gelernter@cs.yale.edu) Department of Computer Science Yale University New Haven, Connecticut PROJECT: ? CONTACT: Luis L. Cova (cova@princeton.edu) Rafael Alonso Department of Computer Science Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (609) 452-3869 PROJECT: DASH CONTACT: David Anderson (anderson@arpa.berkeley.edu) Dominico Ferrari (ferarri@arpa.berkeley.edu) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 PROJECT: DEMOS/MP CONTACT: Barton Miller (miller@cs.wisc.edu) Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, Wisconsin 53706 PROJECT: Locus CONTACT: Gerald Popek (popek@maui.cs.ucla.edu) Department of Computer Science University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA (213) 825-6507 I hope this helps. It probably confussed matters :-) I think that what you should do is to decide just what it is that you want to do. Then you will have an easier time choosing which program to attend. Personalities of people involved with programs is important as well. A friend of mine had to change his thesis topic due to the fact that he could not get along with the advisor at his university who specialized in databases. Another person I know had to stop working on his PhD because there was no one at his university who specialized in his area of interest. George George W. Leach AT&T Paradyne (uunet|att)!pdn!reggie Mail stop LG-133 Phone: 1-813-530-2376 P.O. Box 2826 FAX: 1-813-530-8224 Largo, FL 34649-2826 USA