Cary. G. Gray

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Wheaton College
Wheaton, Illinois

Office: Science 159, x5875
E-mail: Cary.Gray at wheaton.edu

Office hours for Spring 2012

MWF 8:45-10:20 a.m.
M 3:15-4:45 p.m.
by appointment

I'm around a lot more than that. Make an appointment if you need another time. Also, feel free to stop by my office whenever the door is open.

Current courses (Spring 2012)

• CSCI 235 Programming I: Problem Solving
• CSCI 394 Computer Networking
• CSCI 494 Social and Ethical Issues in Computing

Current/recent activities

• I am an instigator of an informal group focused on Undergraduate Systems Education that has held birds-of-a-feather sessions at OSDI'08, USENIX'09, and SOSP'09.
• I was an invited panelist for the 2010 Workshop on Supporting Diversity in Systems Research, held at OSDI'10.
• In 2009-10 I was an organizer of an on-campus faculty symposium, Conversations on Liberal Education.
• During 2010-11, I was faculty co-chair of the General Education Exploratory Committee (campus-only link).
• I am currently working on issues of discplinary identity, particularly as it plays out it computing, and on some historical surveys on concurrency (hardware and software) and on a retrospective on reliable storage. I continue to be interested in how we shape and are shaped by the technologies we build and use.

Selected publications and presentations

Awards and honors

2009 SIGOPS Hall of Fame award, for the 1989 Leases paper

Some recent courses

• CSCI 494 Social and Ethical Issues in Computing (Spring 2011, Spring 2010
• CSCI 455 Operating Systems (Spring 2011)
• CSCI 231 Introduction to Computer Science Concepts (Fall 2011, Fall 2010)
• CSCI 235 Programming I: Problem Solving (Fall 2011 Spring 2011, Fall 2010)
• CSCI 351 Introduction to Computer Systems (Fall 2011, Fall 2010)
• CSCI 233 Introduction to Scientific Computing (Spring 2010)
• CSCI 250 Projects in System Administration (Spring 2008)
• CSCI 375 Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2007)
• CSCI 455 Operating Systems (Spring 2007)

Miscellany

My Erdös number is no higher than 4, via the path of David Cheriton, Robert Tarjan, Maria Klawe.

My academic genealogy can be traced, courtesy of the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Especially famous "ancestors" include George Forsythe (more info), David Hilbert, Andrei Markov and Pafnuty Chebyshev.

Last modified: Wed Jan 11 09:44:42 CST 2012