Dennis Kafura Professor (540)231-6195 (CS Office) (540)231-5568 (Direct) (540)231-4240 (Fax) kafura@cs.vt.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., 1974, Computer Science, Purdue University
• M.S., 1972, Computer Science, Purdue University
• B.S., 1970, Mathematics, University of San Francisco

Books:

Object-Oriented Software Design and Construction with Java (Prentice-Hall, 2000)	Object-Oriented Software Design and Construction with C++ (Prentice-Hall, 1998)

Current Research Projects:

Previous Research Projects

Teaching:

CS 5204: Operating Systems (Fall, 2009)

Computational Thinking (Spring, 2010)

Usable Security (Fall, 2009)

Recent Research Papers

• Markus Lorch and Dennis Kafura, "Supporting Secure Ad-hoc User Collaboration in Grid Environments," (under review) (PDF).
• Markus Lorch and Dennis Kafura, "Supporting Secure Ad-hoc User Collaboration in Grid Environments," (Extended Abstract, unpublished) (PDF).
• N. Ramakrishnan, L.T. Watson, D.G. Kafura, C.J. Ribbens, and C.A. Shaffer, "Programming Environments for Multidisciplinary Grid Communities," Concurrency-Practice and Experience, to appear. (PDF)
• Markus Lorch and Dennis Kafura, "Symphony - A Java-Based Composition and Manipulation Framework for Computational Grids," Symposium on Cluster Computing and Grids (CC Grid 2002), to appear. (Paper: PDF , PS ; Presentation: Powerpoint , HTML )
• Clifford A. Shaffer, Layne T. Watson, Dennis G. Kafura, and Naren Ramakrishnan, “Features of Problem Solving Environments for Computational Science,” Proceedings High Performance Computing Symposium 2000, A. Tentner (Ed.), Soc. for Computer Simulation International, San Diego, CA, 2000, April, 2000, pp. 242-247.(PDF)
• Clifford A. Shaffer, Layne T. Watson, and Dennis G. Kafura, “Component Frameworks for Problem Solving Environments in Computational Science'' in Proceedings of the RACDIS Symposium, Volume I, 1999, pp. 653-656. (PDF, PS)
• Ashish Shah and Dennis Kafura, "Symphony - A Java-based Composition and Manipulation Framework for Distributed Legacy Resources," Proceedings: International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems, May 1999, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 2-12.(PDF)

Selected Previous Research Papers

• Dennis Kafura, Manibrata Mukherji, and Douglas M. Washabaugh, “Concurrent and Distributed Garbage Collection of Active Objects,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 6, No. 4, April 1995, pp. 337-350. (PDF)
• G. Lavender, D. Kafura and R. Mullins, “Programmings with ASN.1 Using  Polymorphic Types and Type Specialization,” Proceedings: 1994 IFIP International Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications, eds. M. Medina  and N. Borenstein, June 1-3, 1994, pp. 151-166. (PDF, PS)
• Dennis Kafura and Greg Lavender, “Concurrent Object-Oriented Languages and the Inheritance Anomaly,” in Parallel Computers: Theory and Practice, ed: T.L. Cassavant, IEEE Press, 1994, pp. 165-198. (PDF, PS)
• Dennis Kafura, Manibrata Mukherji and Greg Lavender, “ACT++ 2.0: A Class Library for Concurrent Programming in C++ Using Actors,” Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, October, 1993, pp. 47-55. (PDF)
• Dennis Kafura, Doug Washabaugh and Jeff Nelson, “Garbage Collection of Actors,”  Proceedings: OOPSLA/ECOOP’90, Ottawa Canada, October 21-25, 1990, pp. 126-134. (PDF)
• D.G. Kafura and K.H. Lee, “Inheritance in Actor Based Concurrent Object-Oriented  Languages,” Proceedings: Third European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming,  Nottingham, England, July 10-14, 1989, p. 131-146. (PDF)

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)