Vita: James S. Plank

Current Position

Professor

Phone: (865) 974-4397
Fax: (865) 974-4404
Email: plank@cs.utk.edu
Web: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank

Research Interests

Distributed systems, network storage, checkpointing, erasure codes, fault-tolerance, operating systems, grid computing.

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, Computer Science, Jan. 1993
Dissertation Title: Efficient Checkpointing on MIMD Architectures
Thesis Advisor: Kai Li
Funding: AT&T Fellowship: 1990-1992
M.A., Princeton University, Computer Science, May 1990
B.S., Yale University, Computer Science, May 1988
Grade Point Average: 3.87
Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi

Employment

2006 - present: Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee.
1999 - 2006: Associate professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee.
1993 - 1999: Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee.
September, 1988 - January, 1993: Graduate student, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University.
Summer, 1991: Research assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee. Worked for Jack Dongarra. Co-designed and wrote the execution tool for HeNCE, a programming environment for heterogeneous parallel computing.
Summer, 1991: Summer intern, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center: Worked for Alan Demers. Ported the research language Modula-3 to Xerox's Portable Cedar parallel runtime system.

External Funding

Publications

Refereed Journals

James S. Plank and Michael G. Thomason, ``An Exploration of Non-Asymptotic Low-Density, Parity Check Erasure Codes for Wide-Area Storage Applications,'' Parallel Processing Letters, Volume 17, Number 1, March, 2007, pages 103-123.
James S. Plank and Ying Ding, `` Note: Correction to the 1997 Tutorial on Reed-Solomon Coding,'' Software, Practice & Experience, Volume 35, Issue 2, February, 2005, pp. 189-194.
A. Bassi, M. Beck, J. P. Gelas, L. Lefevre, T. Moore and J. S. Plank ``Active and logistical networking for grid computing: the e-Toile architecture,'' Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 21, Number 1, January, 2005, pp. 199-208.
Elmootazbellah N. Elnozahy and James S. Plank, ``Checkpointing for Peta-Scale Systems: A Look into the Future of Practical Rollback-Recovery,'' IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1(2), April-June, 2004. pp. 97-108.
James S. Plank, Scott Atchley, Ying Ding and Micah Beck, ``Algorithms for High Performance, Wide-area Distributed File Downloads,'' Parallel Processing Letters, 13(2), June, 2003, pp. 207-224.
Scott Atchley, Stephen Soltesz, James S. Plank, and Micah Beck, ``Video IBPster'', Future Generation Computer Systems, 19, 2003, pp. 861-870.
James S. Plank, Alexander Bassi, Micah Beck, Terence Moore, D. Martin Swany and Rich Wolski, ``Managing Data Storage in the Network,'' IEEE Internet Computing, 5(5), September/October, 2001, pp. 50-58.
Rich Wolski, James S. Plank, John Brevik and Todd Bryan, ``Analyzing Market-based Resource Allocation Strategies for the Computational Grid,'' International Journal Of High Performance Computing Applications, 15(3), Fall, 2001, pp. 258-281. Sage Science Press.
James S. Plank and Michael G. Thomason, ``Processor Allocation and Checkpoint Interval Selection in Cluster Computing Systems,'' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 61(11), November, 2001, pp. 1570-1590. Academic Press.
James S. Plank, Henri Casanova, Micah Beck and Jack Dongarra, Deploying ``Fault Tolerance and Task Migration with NetSolve,'' Future Generation Computer Systems, 15, 1999, pp. 745-755. Elsevier.
Henri Casanova, MyungHo Kim, James S. Plank and Jack Dongarra, ``Adaptive Scheduling for Task Farming with Grid Middleware,,'' International Journal of High Performance Computing, Volume 13, Number 3, Fall, 1999. pp. 231 - 240. Sage Science Press.
Micah Beck, Henri Casanova, Jack Dongarra, Terry Moore, James S. Plank, Fran Berman and Rich Wolski, ``Logistical quality of service in NetSolve,'' Computer Communications, Elsevier, 22(11), July, 1999. pp. 1034-1044.
James S. Plank, Yuqun Chen, Kai Li, Micah Beck and Gerry Kingsley, ````Memory Exclusion: Optimizing the Performance of Checkpointing Systems'','' Software -- Practice and Experience, 29(2), pp. 125-142, 1999.
James S. Plank, Kai Li and Michael A. Puening, ``Diskless Checkpointing'', IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 9(10), October, 1998, pp. 972-986.
James S. Plank, ``A Tutorial on Reed-Solomon Coding for Fault-Tolerance in RAID-like Systems,'' Software -- Practice & Experience, 27(9), September, 1997, pp. 995-1012.
James S. Plank, Youngbae Kim and Jack Dongarra, ``Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations for Networks of Workstations Using Diskless Checkpointing,'' Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 43, 1997, pp. 125-138.
James S. Plank, Micah Beck and Gerry Kingsley, ``Compiler-Assisted Memory Exclusion for Fast Checkpointing,'' IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments, 7(4), Winter 1995, pp. 10-14.
James S. Plank and Kai Li, ``Ickp -- A Consistent Checkpointer for Multicomputers,'' IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technologies, 2(2), Summer, 1994, pp. 62--67.
Kai Li, Jeffrey F. Naughton and James S. Plank, ``Low-Latency, Concurrent Checkpointing for Parallel Programs,'' IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 5(8), August, 1994, pp. 874--879.
Kai Li, Jeffrey F. Naughton and James S. Plank, ``An Efficient Checkpointing Method for Multicomputers with Wormhole Routing,'' International Journal of Parallel Processing, 20(3), June, 1992, pp. 150-180.
Kai Li, Jeffrey F. Naughton and James S. Plank, ``Real-Time, Concurrent Checkpoint for Parallel Programs,'' ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 25(3), March, 1990, pp. 79-88.

Refereed Book Chapters

Yuqun Chen, James S. Plank and Kai Li, ``CLIP: A Checkpointing Tool for Message-Passing Parallel Programs,'' In Scalable Input/Output, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. pp. 182-200.
Rich Wolski, John Brevik, James S. Plank and Todd Bryan, ``Grid resource allocation and control using computational economies,'' In Grid Computing: Making The Global Infrastructure a Reality F. Berman, G. Fox and A. Hey editors, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Micah Beck, Terry Moore, James S. Plank and Martin Swany, ``Logistical Networking: Sharing More Than the Wires,'' In Active Middleware Services, Salim Hariri, Craig A. Lee, and Cauligi S. Raghavendra editors, Kluwer Academic, Norwell, MA, 2000.
James S. Plank, ``Program Diagnostics,'' Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, John G. Webster, editor, volume 17, 1999, pp. 300-310.

Refereed Conference Papers

James S. Plank, ``The RAID-6 Liberation Codes'' FAST-2008: 6th Usenix Conference on File and Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA, February, 2008.
James S. Plank, Adam L. Buchsbaum, Rebecca L. Collins and Michael G. Thomason,
James S. Plank and Lihao Xu, ``Optimizing Cauchy Reed-Solomon Codes for Fault-Tolerant Network Storage Applications,'' The 5th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA06), Cambridge, MA, July, 2006.
James S. Plank, Adam L. Buchsbaum, Rebecca L. Collins and Michael G. Thomason, ``Small Parity-Check Erasure Codes - Exploration and Observations,'' DSN-2005: The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Yokohama, Japan, June, 2005.
Rebecca L. Collins and James S. Plank, `` Assessing the performance of Erasure Codes in the Wide Area,'' DSN-2005: The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Yokohama, Japan, June, 2005.
Micah Beck, Jean-Patrick Gelas, Dustin Parr, James S. Plank, and Stephen Soltesz, ``LoDN: Logistical Distribution Network,'' WACE'04, Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments, Nice, France, September, 2004.
Rebecca L. Collins and James S. Plank, ``Downloading Replicated, Wide-Area Files -- a Framework and Empirical Evaluation,'' The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, August, 2004.
James S. Plank and Michael G. Thomason, ``A Practical Analysis of Low-Density Parity-Check Erasure Codes for Wide-Area Storage Applications,'' DSN-2004: The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Florence, Italy, June, 2004.
Rebecca L. Collins and James S. Plank, ``Content-Addressable IBP - Rationale, Design and Performance'', ITCC 2004, International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, Las Vegas, NV, April, 2004.
Micah Beck, Terry Moore and James S. Plank, ``An End-to-End Approach to Globally Scalable Programmable Networking'', FDNA-03: Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture, in conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany, August, 2003.
Alessandro Bassi, Micah Beck, Terry Moore, and James S. Plank, ``The Logistical Backbone: Scalable Infrastructure for Global Data Grids'', Asian Computing Science Conference 2002, Hanoi, Vietnam, December, 2002.
Micah Beck, Terry Moore, and James S. Plank, ``An End-to-End Approach to Globally Scalable Network Storage,'' ACM SIGCOMM 2002 Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, August, 2002.
Matthew S. Allen, Rich Wolski, and James S. Plank, ``Adaptive Timeout Discovery using the Network Weather Service,'' 11th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-11), Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 2002.
James S. Plank and Micah Beck, ``The Logistical Computing Stack -- A Design For Wide-Area, Scalable, Uninterruptible Computing'', Workshop on Scalable, Uninterruptible Computing, DSN 2002: Dependable Systems and Networks, Bethesda, Maryland, June, 2002.
Alessandro Bassi, Micah Beck, Graham Fagg, Terry Moore, James S. Plank, Martin Swany, and Rich Wolski, ``The Internet Backplane Protocol: A Study in Resource Sharing,'' International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Berlin, Germany, May, 2002.
Scott Atchley, Stephen Soltesz, James S. Plank, Micah Beck, and Terry Moore, ``Fault-Tolerance in the Network Storage Stack,'', IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April, 2002.
James S. Plank, Rich Wolski and Matthew Allen, ``The Effect of Timeout Prediction and Selection on Wide Area Collective Operations'', The IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Cambridge, MA, February 11-13, 2002.
Micah Beck, Terry Moore and James S. Plank, Exposed vs. Encapsulated Approaches to Grid Service Architecture, 2nd International Workshop on Grid Computing, Denver, CO, November, 2001.
Micah Beck, Dorian Arnold, Alessandro Bassi, Fran Berman, Henri Casanova, Jack Dongarra, Terence Moore, Graziano Obertelli, James S. Plank, Martin Swany, Sathish Vadhiyar, and Rich Wolski, ``Logistical Computing and Internetworking: Middleware for the Use of Storage in Communication,'' Third Anual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS), San Francisco, August, 2001.
Wael Elwasif, James S. Plank, and Rich Wolski, ``Data Staging Effects in Wide Area Task Farming Applications,'' IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Brisbane, Australia, May, 2001, pp. 122-129.
Rich Wolski, James S. Plank, John Brevik and Todd Bryan, ``G-commerce: Market Formulations Controlling Resource Allocation on the Computational Grid,'' International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April, 2001.
Adnan Agbaria and James S. Plank, ``Design, Implementation, and Performance of Checkpointing in NetSolve'', International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (FTCS-30 and DCCA-8), New York, NY, June, 2000.
James S. Plank, Micah Beck, Wael Elwasif, Terence Moore, Martin Swany and Rich Wolski, ````The Internet Backplane Protocol: Storage in the Network,'' NetStore '99: Network Storage Symposium, Internet2, Seattle, WA, October, 1999.
Wael Elwasif, James S. Plank, Micah Beck and Rich Wolski, `` IBP-Mail: Controlled Delivery of Large Mail Files,'' NetStore '99: Network Storage Symposium, Internet2, Seattle, WA, October, 1999.
Henri Casanova, MyungHo Kim, James S. Plank, Jack Dongarra, `` Adaptive Scheduling for Task Farming with Grid Middleware,'' 5th International Euro-Par Conference, August, 1999. pp. 30-43.
James S. Plank and Michael G. Thomason, ``The Average Availability of Parallel Checkpointing Systems and Its Importance in Selecting Runtime Parameters,'' 29th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Madison, WI, June, 1999, pp. 250-259.
James S. Plank and Wael Elwasif, ``Experimental Assessment of Workstation Failures and Their Impact on Checkpointing Systems,'' 28th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Munich, June, 1998, pp. 48-57.
Yuqun Chen, James S. Plank and Kai Li, ``CLIP -- A Checkpointing Tool for Message-Passing Parallel Programs,'' SC97: High Performance Networking & Computing, San Jose, November, 1997.
Youngbae Kim, James S. Plank and Jack Dongarra, ``Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations for Networks of Workstations Using Multiple Checkpointing,'' High Performance Computing on the Information Superhighway, HPC Asia '97, Seoul, Korea, April, 1997, pp 460-465.
Youngbae Kim, James S. Plank and Jack Dongarra, ``Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations Using Checksum and Reverse Computation,'' 6th Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, Annapolis, MD, October, 1996, pp. 70--77.
James S. Plank, ``Improving the Performance of Coordinated Checkpointers on Networks of Workstations using RAID Techniques,'' 15th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, October, 1996, pp. 76--85.
James S. Plank, Youngbae Kim and Jack Dongarra, ``Algorithm-Based Diskless Checkpointing for Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations,'' 25th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Pasadena, CA, June, 1995, pp. 351--360.
James S. Plank, Micah Beck, Gerry Kingsley and Kai Li, ``Libckpt: Transparent Checkpointing under Unix,'' Winter 1995 Technical Conference, New Orleans, LA, January, 1995, pp. 213--223.
James S. Plank and Kai Li, ``Faster Checkpointing with N+1 Parity,'' 24th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Austin, TX, June, 1994, pp. 288--297.
James S. Plank and Kai Li, ``Performance Results of Ickp -- A Consistent Checkpointer on the iPSC/860,'' Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, Knoxville, TN, May, 1994, pp. 686--693.
James S. Plank, ``Jgraph -- A Filter for Plotting Graphs in PostScript,'' Usenix Winter 1993 Technical Conference, San Diego, CA, January, 1993, pp. 63--68.
Kai Li, Jeffrey F. Naughton and James S. Plank, ``Checkpointing Multicomputer Applications,'' 10th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, October, 1991, pp. 1-11.

Other Papers

James S. Plank, Henri Casanova, Jack J. Dongarra and Terry Moore, ``Netsolve: An Environment for Deploying Fault-Tolerant Computing,'' FastAbstracts Session, 28th International Conference on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Munich, June, 1998.

Professional Tutorials

Erasure Codes for Storage Systems, Tutorial for USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, San Francisco, CA, December, 2005. Program Chair: Garth Gibson.

Invited Talks and Seminars

The Attack on Raid-6, Wayne State Fall Seminar Series, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, December, 2007. Host: Lihao Xu.
Erasure Coding Research for Reliable Distributed and Cluster Computing, Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing (CCGSC), Flat Rock, North Carolina, September, 2006. Hosts: Jack Dongarra and Bernard Tourancheau.
Decluttering and Improving the World of Erasure Codes, Perspectives on Dependability Workshop, University of Texas at Austin, February, 2006. Workshop Organizer: Lorenzo Alvisi.
Exploring the Practical Properties of LDPC Erasure Codes in Wide-Area Storage Systems, DCS Colloquium, Rutgers University, April, 2005. Host: Liviu Iftode.
The Network Storage Stack and The Logistical Runtime System. Seminar, IBM Austin Research Lab, February, 2004, Host: Mootaz Elnozahy.
Logistical Networking and the Network Storage Stack, Princeton 2002-2003 Colloquium Series, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February, 2003, Host: V. Pai.
The Storage Fabric of the Grid: The Network Storage Stack, Cluster and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing (CCGSC), Faverges de la Tour, France, September, 2002, Hosts: Jack Dongarra and Bernard Tourancheau.
Logistical Networking and the Network Storage Stack, Intel Research Seminar Series, Intel Research Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, August, 2002, Host: M. Satyanarayanan.
Scalable, Uninterruptable Network Storage and Logistical Computing, Workship on Scalable, Uninterruptible Computing, The International Conference on Dependable Systems & Networks, Washington, D.C., June, 2002. Workshop Organizer: Dimiter Avresky.
Dependability and the Grid -- Opinions and Recommendations, Panel on Dependability and the Grid, The International Conference on Dependable Systems & Networks, Washington, D.C., June, 2002. Panel Organizer: Rick Schlicting.
Fault Tolerance in the Network Storage Stack Workshop on Scalable Fault Tolerance for Distributed Computing, Computer Science Research Institute, Sandia National Labs, June, 2002. Host: Patricia Hough.
IBP-ster: Data Movement on the Grid, Talk and software demonstration, SC01, Denver, November, 2001. Hosts: National Partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure and the University of Tennessee Center for Information Technology Research.
Logistical QoS through Application-Driven Scheduling of Remote Storage, Next Generation Software Panel, 15th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, Sorrento, Italy, June, 2001. Host: Frederica Derema.
G-Commerce: The Study and Building of Computational Economies for the Computational Grid, Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama, Host: Brandon Dixon. March, 2001.
G-Commerce: The Study and Building of Computational Economies for the Computational Grid, Workshop on Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing, Faverges de la Tour, France, September, 2000. Organizers: Bernard Tourancheau and Jack Dongarra
Computer-Mediated Piano Performance: A Lecture/ Concert/ Demonstration, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May, 2000. Host: Norman Ramsey.
The Internet Backplane Protocol: Structure and Applications, Argonne National Labs, September, 1999. Host: Ian Foster.
Diskless Checkpointing Techniques and Their Place in Metacomputing Systems, Workshop on Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing, Townsend, TN, September, 1998. Organizers: Jack Dongarra and Bernard Tourancheau.
Fast and Portable Checkpointing in Parallel Computing Environments, University of Houston, Houston, TX, April, 1998. Host: Lennart Johnsson.
Research Directions: Checkpointing Research at Tennessee, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, April, 1997. Host: Emerald Chung.
Compiler Assisted Memory Exclusion for Fast Checkpointing, AT&T Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, January, 1996. Host: Chandra Kintala.
New Techniques for Fast Checkpointing, Brown University, November, 1994. Host: Robert Netzer.
Efficient Checkpointing -- A Seminar, Princeton University, March, 1994. Hosts: Kai Li, Edward Felten and Douglas Clark.
Efficient Checkpointing of Multicomputers, William and Mary, April, 1993. Host: Phil Kearns.
Efficient Checkpointing in MIMD Architectures, University of California at San Diego, January, 1993. Host: Mohan Ahuja.

Released Software

Jerasure, A Library in C/C++ Facilitating Erasure Coding for Storage Applications. September, 2007.
Galois.tar, Fast Galois Field arithmetic library for C/C++. April, 2007.
GFLIB, a Galois-Field arithmetic libraray for Reed-Solomon codes. Initial release, 2003.
LoRS, The Logistical Runtime System -- code for aggregating network storage depots into network files. Initial release, 2001.
IBP, a tool serving storage as a network resource to remote clients. Initial release, October, 1999.
CLIP, a tool for checkpointing and restarting programs on the Intel Paragon. Released in May, 1997.
Libckpt, a tool for checkpointing and restarting programs under Unix. Released in August, 1994.
Ickp, a tool for checkpointing and restarting distributed programs on the Intel iPSC/2 and iPSC/860 multicomputers. Alpha version released in November, 1992. Newest release: May, 1994.
Jgraph is a very popular public domain program for displaying graphical information in PostScript. It was written in September, 1990. Version 8.3 was made available in November, 1992.

Teaching

Received ``Senior Faculty Teaching Award'' for the College of Arts and Sciences for 2003-2004. The field for this award was composed of all faculty in Arts and Sciences with 10 or more years of experience. The award came with $1000 for my program.
Received ``ACM Faculty Member of the Year'' departmental teaching award in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2006.
Have developed the following courses:
- CS102: Introduction to Programming
- CS140: Data Structures
- CS360: Systems Programming
- CS494: Scripts and Utilities
- CS560: Operating Systems
Have also taught the following courses:
- CS302: Fundamental Algorithms
- CS594: Fault Tolerance and Other Concepts
- CS660: Advanced Operating Systems and Fault Tolerance

Professional Service

NCA 2008 Program Committee Member:
(International Symposium on Network Computing Applications).
DSN 2008 Program Committee Member:
(International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks).
NCA 2007 Program Committee Member:
(International Symposium on Network Computing Applications).
DSN 2007 Program Committee Member:
(International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks).
NSF Panel Member: CCR Panel, April, 2007.
2003 - 2006: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
DSN 2006 Program Committee Member:
(International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks).
HPDC 2004 Program Committee Member:
(High Performance Distributed Computing).
DSN 2004 Program Committee Member:
(International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks).
NCA 2004 Program Committee Member:
(International Symposium on Network Computing Applications).
DSN 2003 Program Committee Member:
(International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks).
NCA 2003 Program Co-Chair:
(International Symposium on Network Computing Applications).
DSN 2002 Program Committee Member:
(International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks).
NCA 2001 Program Committee Member:
(International Symposium on Network Computing Applications).
NetStore '99 Program Co-Chair (Network Storage Symposium).
FTCS-30 (DSN 2000) Program Committee Member:
(International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks).
ICDCS '99 Program Committee Member:
(19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems).
ICPP '98 Program Committee Member:
(International Conference on Parallel Processing).
IPPS '97 Program Committee Member:
(International Parallel Processing Symposium).
Have refereed numerous papers for journals (IEEE TC, IEEE Computer, IEEE TPDS, ACM ToCS, JPDC, SPE, JCNA), funding agencies (NSF), and conferences (FTCS, SRDS, SOSP, OSDI, Supercomputing, PLDI, SPDP, SHPCC, IPPS, ICPP, Euro-Par).

Public Service

Note, that while these talks may not be technical Computer Science talks, I give them as a representative of the Computer Science Department, and the University of Tennessee.

Lecture/Demonstration: Science as a Career, Computer Science Research: Math and Science Regional Center, Pre-College Enrichment Program, June, 2007. Host: University of Tennessee. This program is hosted by the University every summer, and is composed of 55-60 high school students from the Southeastern United States. These students are from low-income families where neither parent holds a bachelor's degree. The point of the program is to kindle the spirit of these students and to provide math and science experiences not offered in the traditional high school classroom environment.
Lecture/Demonstration: Computer-Mediated Piano Performance: Three separate lecture/demonstrations for a total of roughly 120 8th grade students from Robertsville Middle School, who came to visit our department, October, 2005. Host: Mike Berry.
Lecture/Demonstration: Being a Professor - Research and Technology: Bearden Elementary School, September, 2005. Host: Sherri Fisher.
Lecture: Thinking about Defense: Virginia Beach Sectional Bridge Tournament, Virginia Beach, VA, sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League, June, 2005. Host: Carol Guy.
Lecture: Defensive Signaling: Gryphon's Duplicate Bridge Club, Knoxville, TN, 2003. Host: Kevin Wilson.
Lecture: Competitive Bidding over 1N: Gryphon's Duplicate Bridge Club, Knoxville, TN, 2002. Host: Kevin Wilson.
Lecture/Demonstration: Computer-Mediated Piano Performance, Atria at Weston Place Nursing Home, Summer, 2001. Arranged through the UT speakers' bureau.
Lecture/Demonstration: Computer-Mediated Piano Performance, Austin-East High School, Knoxville, TN. February, 2001. Arranged through the UT speakers' bureau. Host: Debbie Lehman.
Lecture/Demonstration: Computer-Assisted Piano Performance, University of Tennessee public speech. March, 1999.