Bruce W. Leverett

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Bruce W. Leverett [1] Bruce W. Leverett,

an American FIDE master of chess [2], computer scientist, and software engineer at Panasas, a provider storage solutions. He received a Bachelor degree in physics and chemistry from Harvard University in 1973, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981, elaborating on register allocation in optimizing compilers [3]. His research interests in academics and industry, beside compiler optimization and code generation, include memory management and file systems, where he contributed to the POSIX compliant Episode filesystem [4]. As undergraduate at Harvard University in the early 70s, he wrote the chess program Leverett CP which participated the ACM 1972 [5].

Selected Publications#

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1977 …#

• Bruce W. Leverett, Paul J. Knueven, Peter G. Hibbard (1977). Portability Techniques for BLISS Programs. Carnegie Mellon University [7]
• Rick Cattell, Joseph M. Newcomer, Bruce W. Leverett (1979). Code generation in a machine-independent compiler. ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Compiler Construction 1979

1980 …#

• Bruce W. Leverett, Thomas G. Szymanski (1980). Chaining Span-Dependent Jump Instructions. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol 2. No. 3
• Bruce W. Leverett (1981). Register allocation in optimizing compilers. Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, advisor William A. Wulf
• Bruce W. Leverett, Peter G. Hibbard (1982). An Adaptive System for Dynamic Storage Allocation. Software: Practice and Experience, Vol. 12, No. 6
• Bruce W. Leverett (1982). Topics in Code Generation and Register Allocation. Carnegie Mellon University
• Bruce W. Leverett (1983). Register allocation in optimizing compilers. UMI Research Press

1990 …#

• Michael L. Kazar, Bruce W. Leverett, Owen T. Anderson, Vasilis Apostolides, Beth A. Bottos, Sailesh Chutani, Craig F. Everhart, W. Anthony Mason, Shu-Tsui Tu, Edward R. Zayas (1990). DEcorum File System Architectural Overview. USENIX Summer 1990
• Sailesh Chutani, Owen T. Anderson, Michael L. Kazar, Bruce W. Leverett, W. Anthony Mason, Robert N. Sidebotham (1992). The Episode File System. Transarc, CiteSeerX

External Links#

• Bruce Leverett’s Home Page
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Bruce Leverett
• Bruce Leverett | LinkedIn
• Technique for accelerating the creation of a point in time prepresentation of a virtual file system - Google Patents
• Technique for accelerating file deletion by preloading indirect blocks - Google Patents
• Technique for accelerating log replay with partial cache flush - Google Patents
• Leverett, Bruce W FIDE Chess Profile
• The chess games of Bruce W. Leverett from chessgames.com
• Bruce W Leverett chess games - 365Chess.com
• Pittsburgh boasts top chess players who are hip to the squares - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review by Craig Smith, January 9, 2011

References#

1. ↑ Bruce Leverett | LinkedIn
2. ↑ Leverett, Bruce W FIDE Chess Profile
3. ↑ Bruce W. Leverett (1981). Register allocation in optimizing compilers. Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, advisor William A. Wulf
4. ↑ Sailesh Chutani, Owen T. Anderson, Michael L. Kazar, Bruce W. Leverett, W. Anthony Mason, Robert N. Sidebotham (1992). The Episode File System. Transarc, CiteSeerX
5. ↑ Pittsburgh boasts top chess players who are hip to the squares - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review by Craig Smith, January 9, 2011
6. ↑ dblp: Bruce W. Leverett
7. ↑ BLISS from Wikipedia

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