Michael B. Jones' Summer Interns

Summer Interns

• I was pleased to have Chip Killian from Duke University and UCSD work with me on the Singularity project during the summer of 2004.  He ported the Rialto real-time scheduler into the Singularity kernel.
• It was a pleasure to have Dejan Kostic from Duke University work with me on the Herald project during the summer of 2003.  His work on FUSE: A Lightweight Guaranteed Distributed Failure Notification System was published at OSDI '04.
• I was again thrilled to have Stefan Saroiu from the University of Washington work with me again during the summer of 2002, this time on the Herald project.  His work included SkipNet: A Scalable Overlay Network with Practical Locality Properties, which received the best paper award at USITS '03.
• I was pleased to have Krishna Gummadi from the University of Washington working with me on the Herald project during the summer of 2001.
• I was thrilled with the work that Stefan Saroiu from the University of Washington did with me during the summer of 2000. He performed a detailed study of the performance characteristics and resource requirements of a popular soft modem, and showed that scheduling the modem's signal processing computations with a real-time scheduler can improve the timing predictability of other applications running concurrently with it. He presented a paper on this work at SIGMETRICS 2001.
• During the summers of 1998 and 1999 I was pleased to have John Regehr from the University of Virginia working with me as a research intern. Among other accomplishments, during his 1998 internship we co-authored a paper on latency in Windows NT for NOSSDAV '98 and fed a timer latency bug fix he developed back to the Windows NT developers.  Continuing our collaboration after his initial internship, we presented additional latency results at HotOS-VII and co-authored a paper on Rialto-style scheduling on Windows NT for the Third USENIX Windows NT Symposium.  During the summer of 1999 John also continued development of the Rialto/NT scheduler as well as studied the effectiveness of applying CPU Reservations to a digital audio player application. Since his internship, we co-authored the position paper Operating System Support for Multimedia: The Programming Model Matters with his advisor Jack Stankovic.
• It was great working with George Candea from MIT LCS during the summer of 1997 on several real-time projects, including a system we called Vassal that allows run-time loading of new scheduling policies, which is described in our paper in the Second USENIX Windows NT Symposium.  The paper was given the best student paper award.
• I was delighted at the work Daniela Rosu and Marcel-Catalin Rosu from the Georgia Tech College of Computing did with me during the summer of '96, culminating in our joint SOSP paper on CPU Reservations and Time Constraints.

Last modified March 10, 2007, Michael B. Jones, <mbj@microsoft.com>.