Curriculum Vitae

John Ockerbloom

Academic Credentials

Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, with distinction in computer science
Yale University
New Haven, CT
1989

Master of Science, computer science
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
1993

Doctor of Philosophy, computer science
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
1998

Scholarships and Awards

• National Merit Scholar.
• Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.
• Awarded Perkin-Elmer scholarship.

Research and Computing Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow

Investigating extensions of thesis research into mutable object-oriented stores. Investigating applications for interoperability in architectural description language toolkits and in digital libraries. Teaching introductory computer science to undergraduates.

Ph. D. Student

Thesis: "Mediating Among Diverse Data Formats". Designed, implemented, and documented Unix-based servers and clients in C for this thesis.

Active in the ABLE group (headed by David Garlan). Collaborated in the design and implementation of the Aesop system, particularly its original user interface. Active in the Composable Systems Group (headed by David Garlan, Mary Shaw, and Jeannette Wing) which has used some of the products of my thesis work. Consultant to the Universal Library project (headed by Raj Reddy), which is using some of my On-Line Books World Wide Web information. Was active in the Gandalf project (headed by Nico Habermann) until 1993, and collaborated on its maintenance and implementation, particularly its unparser.

Founded the World Wide Web site at Carnegie Mellon CS (www.cs.cmu.edu), in 1993, and acted as Webmaster until 1996, maintaining Web clients and servers, CGI scripts, and HTML collections, and coordinating Web activity in the department.

Computer Programmer

Implemented graphical user interfaces for oscilloscope simulations in C++, using Unix and the X, Motif, and InterViews toolkits.

Research Assistant

Implemented user interface for a graphical display of the results of computer vision algorithms in C++, using Unix and the InterViews toolkit.

Computer Programmer

Implemented, documented, and maintained various support programs for computer science Facilities, mostly in C under Unix. Revised a user's guide to Yale computer science facilities.

Computer Programmer

Designed, adapted, and implemented programs for handling work orders, inventory, and other administrative tasks in Basic for IBM and Radio Shack personal computers.

Professional and Research Interests

Publications and Technical Reports

• Wing, J. and Ockerbloom, J. Respectful Type Converters Technical Report CMU-CS-98-130, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, May 1998. Revised version to appear in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
• Ockerbloom, J. Mediating Among Diverse Data Formats. PhD. Thesis. Technical Report CMU-CS-98-102, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, January 1998 (released May 1998).
• Ockerbloom, J. Accommodation: The Key to Making Widely Adopted Composable Systems Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures, Monterey, CA, January 1998.
• Garlan, D., Allen, R., and Ockerbloom, J. Architectural Mismatch: Why Reuse Is So Hard. IEEE Software, November 1995. (Much of this paper was was originally published (by the same authors) as Architectural Mismatch, or, Why it's hard to build systems out of existing parts . Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Engineering , April 1995.)
• Ockerbloom, J. Exploiting Structured Data in Wide-Area Information Systems. Technical Report CMU-CS-95-184, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, August 1995.
• Garlan, D., Allen, R., and Ockerbloom, J. Exploiting Style in Architectural Design Environments. Proceedings of SIGSOFT'94: The Second ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering , December 1994.