Kevin E. Moore
Computer Sciences DepartmentCollege of Letters and Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Contact Information
Sun Microsystems Labs
Mailstop UMPK16-158
16 Network Circle
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
650-786-9068
kmoore at cs.wisc.edu
Research
My interests lie in multiprocessor memory systems, and the interaction of hardware and software.
Transactional Memory
Transactional memory promises to simplify multhreaded programming by removing the need to associate a lock with each piece of shared data. Instead, programmers specify transactions, which forces a set of statements to execute atomically.
As a graduate student, I worked on the LogTM transactional memory system, a component of the Multifacet project.Short Biography
I grew up in Mill Valley, CA and received a B.S.E. from Duke University in 1997. After college, I lived and worked in San Diego for two years before returning to school to study computer Architecture at the Unversity of Wisconsin. I graduated in June of 2007 and joined the Scalable Synchronization Group at Sun Microsystems Labs.