Andrew S. Grimshaw, Michael J. Lewis, Adam J. Ferrari, and John F. Karpovich, "Architectural Support for Extensibility and Autonomy in Wide Area Distributed Object Systems," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing. [Postscript] [PDF]

Andrew S. Grimshaw, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Michael J. Lewis, and Mark Hyett, "Campus-Wide Computing: Results Using a Legion Prototype at the University of Virginia," International Journal of Supercomputing Applications, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 1997, pp. 129-143. [Postscript] [PDF]

Mike Lewis and Andrew Grimshaw, "The Core Legion Object Model," Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Conference on High Performance Distributed Computing, pp. 551-561, Syracuse, NY, August 1996. [Postscript] [PDF] (An earlier, more detailed, but out-of-date version exists as UVa Technical Report CS-95-35, August 1995. [Compressed Postscript] [Postscript] [PDF]

W. Timothy Strayer, Michael J. Lewis, and Raymond E. Cline, Jr., "XTP as a Transport Protocol for Distributed Parallel Processing," Proceedings of the 1994 USENIX Symposium on High-Speed Networking, pp. 91-101, Oakland, California, August 1994. [Postscript] [PDF]

Michael J. Lewis and Raymond E. Cline, Jr., "PVM Communication Performance in a Switched FDDI Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Environment," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 13-19, Princeton, NJ, October 1993. [Postscript] [PDF]

• Independently designed and implemented the dynamically configurable distributed object model.
• Helped design and implement the Legion wide-area object-based metasystem.
• Contributed to Legion funding proposals to NSF, DARPA, and DOE.
• Programmed and modified the Mentat object-oriented parallel processing system.
• Member of the project team that won the HPC Challenge Award for Overall System Performance and Functionality at Supercomputing '95 and an HPC Challenge Award at Supercomputing '98.

• Managed four graduate student teaching assistants and six undergraduate graders.
• Lectured (as a substitute), designed exams, homework, and class projects.
• Won the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in computer science at UVa for 1995-96.

• Received a Doctoral Research Fellowship from Associated Western Universities.
• Characterized the performance of the Heterogeneous Environment and Testbed workstation cluster, and the XTP transport protocol. Developed a distributed program simulator using PVM.

• Programmed the Univers attribute-based name server, written in Scheme.
• Implemented significant class projects including an RPC mechanism, a fully-functional network transport protocol, and a distributed database using 2-phase commit.
• Passed comprehensive exams in March 1993.

• Prepared and taught recitation classes (student evaluations available).
• Designed, administered, and graded exams.

• Helped design and teach a six-week programming course for gifted high school students.

• Helped design and implement an SQL-based database for advertising inserts.
• Converted newspaper page layout system to use multiple printer control languages.

• Elected by fellow graduate students to the 3-person committee in computer science.
• Interviewed faculty candidates.
• Represented graduate student concerns to faculty.
• Organized various meetings and social events.

• Organized and conducted Orientation Week for incoming computer science graduate students.

• Software: Practice & Experience
• High Performance Distributed Computing
• International Parallel Processing Symposium

• Welcomed, advised, and mentored incoming computer science graduate students.

• Appointed by faculty to be the sole graduate student member of the committee.
• Reviewed applications and helped select the graduate student class of '93.