Michael L. Scott Arthur Gould Yates Professor of Engineering Department of Computer Science Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Rochester, NY 14627-0226 3401 Wegmans Hall phone (585) 275-5671, 5478; fax 273‑4556   URCS @ 50: remarks from the department’s 50th anniversary, September, 2024. (My portion starts at 3:01:40.)

2006 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing Press release — Award citation — Acceptance speech Press Release for the Java 6 SynchronousQueue ACM Fellow listing — UR press release IEEE Life Fellow listing AAAS Fellow listing — UR press release Commencement addresses: 2003 URCS; 2021 AS&E+SMD Master’s degrees; 2021 URCS 2001 Goergen Teaching Award Acceptance speech — “How I Teach” essay 2010 “Last Lecture”       2020 Riker Teaching Award Named Professorship 2018 HSEAS Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 IEEE TCCA/HPCA Test of Time Award

Research Projects

• Concurrency and Synchronization
  • Montage:  a fast, general system for buffered persistent data structures.  Code to accompany the 2021 ICPP paper and 2021 DISC paper. 
  • Ralloc:  a fast, lock-free allocator for persistent memory.  Code to accompany the 2020 ISMM paper. 
  • Interval-based memory reclamation:  fast support for nonblocking concurrent data structures.  Code to accompany the 2018 PPoPP paper. 
  • Release 7 of the RSTM Transactional Memory System for C++ pthreads programs. 
• First-Class Operating System Management of Computational Accelerators
• DPR/TARDIS: Deterministic Parallel Ruby
• InterWeave: A Middleware System for Distributed Shared State
• CASHMERe: Coherent Shared Memory for Next-Generation Networks and Multiprocessors

Courses

• CSC 2/454: Programming Language Design and Implementation (Fall 2023)
• CSC 400: Problem Seminar (Introduction to Graduate Study; Spring 2021)
• CSC 573: Persistent Memory (graduate seminar, Spring 2020)
• CSC 2/458: Parallel and Distributed Systems (Spring 2019)
• CSC 299: Social Implications of Computing (Spring 2018)
• CSC 252: Computer Organization (Spring 2014)
• CSC 162: The Art of Data Structures (Spring 2010)
• CSC 200: Undergraduate Problem Seminar (Introduction to Research) (Spring 2004)
• CSC 173: Computation and Formal Systems (Fall 2001)
• CSC 2/456: Operating Systems (Spring 2000)

Current Graduate Students

• Alan Beadle,
• Mingzhe Du,
• Spyridoula Gravani (primary advisor John Criswell),

Ph.D. Graduates

• Wentao Cai, “Nonblocking Data Structures on Persistent Memory,” 2022.  Nvidia (formerly with Google Seattle). 
• Hensen Wen, “Memory Management and Persistency of Multithreaded Applications,” 2022.  Huawei Canada. 
• Ryan Yates, “Improving Haskell Transactional Memory,” 2019.  Groq, Inc. (formerly tenure-track faculty at Houghton College). 
• Mohammad Hedayati-Goudarzi (co-supervised by Kai Shen), Fair OS management of very fast devices (ABD), 2019.  Google Seattle.
• Joseph Izraelevitz, “Concurrency Implications of Nonvolatile Byte-Addressable Memory,” 2017.  University of Colorado, Boulder (tenure-track faculty; previous postdocs at the University of California, San Diego, and the IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain). 
• Lingxiang Xiang, “Compiler Assisted Speculation for Multithreaded Systems,” 2015.  Intel Labs, Santa Clara. 
• Li Lu, “Designing for the Simple Case in a Parallel Scripting Language,” 2014.  Meta Platforms (formerly with Hortonworks and Xunjing Technology).  lilu9.cn@gmail.com
• Konstantinos Menychtas (co-supervised by Kai Shen), “Fair, Protected OS-level Scheduling for Fast Computational Accelerators,” 2014.  Google. 
• Luke D'Alessandro, “Preserving the Appeal of Transactional Programming,” 2013.  Indiana University (formerly at University of Washington). 
• Michael F. Spear, “Fast Software Transactions,” 2009.  Lehigh University (tenure-track faculty). 
• Virendra Marathe, “Enhancing the Performance and Usability of Software Transactional Memory,” 2008.  Oracle (formerly Sun) Laboratories. 
• William N. Scherer III, “Synchronization and Concurrency in User-level Software Systems,” 2005.  Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Houston (formerly research faculty at Rice University). 
• Athanasios Papathanasiou, “Power Efficiency through I/O Access Pattern Reshaping,” 2005.  Databricks (formerly with Intel Corp, Teradata Aster, and Amazon Web Services). 
• Grigorios Magklis, “Increasing Energy Efficiency in Adaptive Architectures,” 2005.  Esperanto Technologies, Barcelona, Spain (formerly with Intel Corp. and ARM Holdings). 
• Robert Stets, “Leveraging Symmetric Multiprocessors and System Area Networks in Software Distributed Shared Memory,” 1999.  Google (formerly with Compaq Western Research Lab). 
• Galen C. Hunt, “Automatic Distributed Partitioning of Component-Based Applications,” 1998.  Microsoft Research. 
• Maged Michael, “Reducing the Overhead of Sharing in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors,” 1997.  Independent consultant (formerly at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center and at Meta Platforms). 
• Leonidas Kontothanassis, “Architectural and Operating System Support for Inexpensive, Efficient Shared Memory,” 1995.  Boston University (formerly with DEC/Compaq/HP Labs, Akamai, Google, and Meta). 
• Bill Bolosky, “Software Coherence in Multiprocessor Memory Systems,” 1993.  (formerly at Microsoft Research). 
• Ken Yap, “PENGUIN: A Language for Reactive Graphical User Interfaces,” 1990.  Independent consultant, Sydney, Australia (formerly with CSIRO and CISRA). 
• Peter Dibble, “A Parallel Interleaved File System,” 1989.  Google Pittsburgh (formerly with TimeSys Corp., Microware Systems Corporation, and the Iowa State University). 

(Picture courtesy of Erin Scott)

Personal Links

• A “Last Lecture,” in the style of Randy Pausch, delivered in Dec. 2010.
• Personal reflections on the “Florian Jaeger affair,” gleaned from long-term participation in the College’s program of restorative practice. 
• The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), representing over 1,000 liberal congregations in North America.  Affirming the inherent worth and dignity of every person. 
  • In July 2011 I was interviewed for public radio's Interfaith Voices on the occasion of the UUA's 50th anniversary.
    Click here for audio (13 min): 
    Or check out the slightly longer backstory.
  • In June of 2004 the UUA General Assembly passed a Statement of Immediate Witness on Electronic Voting.  I made a brief statement in support of this resolution on the floor of the assembly.
• Rochester's First Universalist Church: a community of reason, love, and faith, since 1846. 
• My grandfather, the Rev. Dr. Clinton Lee Scott. 
• My older daughter, Erin, Ministerial Intern of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, NH.
• The New York State Convention of Universalists: a state-level Unitarian Universalist charitable foundation, which I served as Secretary from 1991 to 1999, as President from 2001 to 2005, and as webmaster since 2004. 
• The Union of Concerned Scientists: rigorous scientific analysis, innovative thinking, and citizen advocacy for a healthier environment and a safer world. 
• The American Civil Liberties Union: defending the Bill of Rights. 
• The American Association of University Professors and its U of R chapter: advancing academic freedom and shared institutional governance. 
• The Religious Community for Reproductive Choice: pro-faith, pro-family, pro-choice. 
• Amnesty International: working to protect human rights worldwide.  See also AI-USA. 
• My pages at Wikipedia, Facebook, and LinkedIn. 

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