Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera Continuing Lecturer grr@cs.purdue.edu

Address

    Purdue University
    Department of Computer Sciences
    305 N. University Street
    West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2107
    Office Phone: +1 765-494-9161
    FAX:          +1 765-494-0739

General Information

Virtual Tour of Lawson Computer Science Building

Courses

• CS-252 Systems Programming
• CS-354 Operating Systems
• CS-422 Computer Networks
• CS-251 Data Structures
• CS-250 Computer Architecture
• CS-636 Internetworking
• CS-314 Numerical Analysis
• CS-603 Distributed Systems, Spring 96
• CS-413 Operating Systems and Networks, Spring 98
• Systems Programming

Journal Papers and Presentations

• Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera, Mike Spertus, and Charles Fiterman,
  "Conservative Garbage Collection for General Memory Allocators".
  ISMM2000 International Symposium on Memory Management,
  Sponsored by SIGPLAN, Co-located with OOPSLA
  Minneapolis, Minnesota, 15-16 October, 2000
  (PDF),

• Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera, Mike Spertus, and Charles Fiterman,
  "A Non-Fragmenting Non-Moving, Garbage Collector".
  ISMM98 International Symposium on Memory Management,
  Sponsored by SIGPLAN, Co-located with OOPSLA
  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 17-19, 1998
  (PDF)

• Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera and Vince Russo,
  "Cyclic Distributed Garbage Collection Without Global Synchronization in CORBA".
  OOPSLA'97 GC & MM Workshop
  (PDF)

• Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera and Vince Russo,
  "Nonintrusive Cloning Garbage Collection with Stock Operating System Support".
  Software-Practice and Experience , Vol 27, No. 8, August 1997.
  (Abstract) . (Early Draft in PDF) .

• Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera and Vince Russo,
  "Non-intrusive Garbage Collection"
  presented at MSPLS Fall 1995 Workshop
  (abstract) and (slides)

• Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera and Vince Russo,
  "Local/Distributed Garbage Collection in Renaissance"
  Technical Report.

• Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera
  Cyclic Distributed Garbage Collection Without Global Synchronization.
  Ph.D. Preliminary Examination. April 28, 1995.
  (report) , (talk).

My Thesis: Distributed Garbage Collection Without Global Synchronization

• Draft in Postcript

Projects

• Networking
• Object Oriented Operating Systems
• Local / Distributed Garbage Collection

Some interesting TCL scripts

• Plot a List of Points

Favorite Sound and Video

• Tears In The Rain (from "Blade Runner")
• Rachel (also from "Blade Runner")

Some places with information about GC

• Boehm and Weiser famous GC library for C and C++.
• Geodesic Systems. A great company that makes a garbage collector and leak detector for C and C++ programs.
• Doug Lea's Memory Allocator A good balance between speed and space efficiency.
• Garbage Collection in Java
• Benjamin Zorn's Benchmarks
• Wilson's GC Survey and OOPSLA Workshop on GC.
• Richard Jones' "The Garbage Collection Page"
• Shapiro and Plainfosse work on Distributed Garbage Collection in the SOUL system.
• Ellis proposal for Efficient Garbage Collection for C++" .
• GC mailing list and FAQ
• Publications of Projet SOR at INRIA in Rocquencourt

Writing your Thesis?

• How To Write A Dissertation. By Douglas Comer
• How To pick A Worthy Topic In 10 Seconds. By Douglas Comer

The Renaissance OO Distributed System

• Renaissance Home Page
• Don't forget to browse Renaissance running at lorenzo.cs.purdue.edu

Information about Operating Systems

• Frequently answered questions for comp.os.research

Experiments with Java

• Nervous and Blinking Text
• Applet Arcade
• Winners Java Competition (Check-out the Turing Machine!)
• Con Sabor Baby

Modula 3

• Modula-3 Homepage

Vision & Pattern Recognition

• Computer Vision Home Page
• Kodak Sample Digital Images
• AI, Cognitive Science and Robotics WWW Resource Page
• CVonline: The Evolving, Distributed, Non-Proprietary, On-Line Compendium of Computer Vision
• Robyn Owens Vision Course
• Sussex Computer Vision Teach Files
• The Marble Project
• Pattern Recognition Group TU Delft, Nederlands

Hough Transform

• XHoughtool

Some Public Software

• The Grader Program written by Douglas Comer

Hobbies

• My pets: Sunshine and Sancho

Various Pictures

• Spring 2001