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                    Seminar Announcement

            Department of Computer Science, FEIT
             The Australian National University
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Date:  Wednesday, 01 June 2005
Time:  4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]

Speaker: Daniel Frampton, PhD Student, DCS

Title:   Memory Management within an Operating System

Abstract:
  Modern programming languages such as Java and C# have gained widespread
  recognition for their potential to improve application reliability and
  security. The application domains these languages service has been
  growing from server processing to user applications, systems
  programming, and real-time systems. A natural extension is to use such
  languages to develop a managed operating system.

  This concept has gained serious backing from both the Java community
  with JNode, and Microsoft Research with the Singularity project. A
  managed operating system raises the bar yet again for memory management
  performance, providing exciting challenges and opportunities for the
  field.

  I recently completed an internship at Microsoft Research in the United
  States where I developed a concurrent garbage collector for Singularity.
  During the seminar I will explore the problem of memory management
  within an operating system using the collector I implemented at
  Microsoft as a driving example.


Biography:
  Daniel Frampton, a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science,
  finished his BSEng degree at ANU in 2003 becoming the first student
  in that degree program to be awarded a University Medal.

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars05/dept20050601




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