 <b> Henry M. Levy</b>, Professor,  joined the faculty in 1983.  Hank's current research  projects focus on operating systems, on parallel and <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/distributed.html"> distributed computing</a>, on computer architecture (particularly "<a href=http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/smt>Simultaneous Multithreading</a>" architectures) and on object-based languages and environments.  A recent project called <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/opal/opal.html">Opal</a>  deals with single-address space operating systems for 64-bit computer architectures.  The <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/bershad/Etch/index.html">Etch</a> project is producing a tool for performance instrumentation and optimization of x86 binary executables. <P>
