 Lazowska received his A.B. from <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu"> Brown University</a> in 1972, and has been at the University of Washington since receiving his Ph.D. from the <a href="http://www.cs.utoronto.ca"> University of Toronto</a> in 1977. His research concerns computer systems and computer system performance.  Recent specific topics have included parallel discrete-event simulation, scheduling policies for multiprocessors, kernel structures to support high-performance parallel computing, programming systems for networks of multiprocessors, effective program performance monitoring tools for parallel systems, the interaction of architecture and operating system design, hardware and software techniques for high performance communication, and, most recently, operating system and programming system support that exploits wide-address architectures <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/opal/opal.html"> (Opal)</a>.  Almost all of this work has actually been carried out by terrific students, and has been supervised jointly with <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/levy.html"> Hank Levy</a> or <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/zahorjan.html"> John Zahorjan</a>; Lazowska mostly <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/ties.html">wears ties</a>, pushes paper, and racks up frequent flier miles. (The graduate students seem to have picked up on this (<a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/skit.mov">1.7Mb Quicktime</a>).)  He also hosts lots of visitors, a surprising number of whom have <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/lazowska.noses.html">funny noses</a>.  <p>
