Brian Lewis

Brian Lewis was most recently in the Walkabout project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories where he worked on portions of two frameworks that support retargetable binary translation: the static (ahead of time) UQBT framework and the dynamic (runtime) Walkabout framework. The Walkabout framework supports experiments in on-the-fly optimization, translation, and manipulation of applications for a variety of different machines.

His interests include binary translation as well as virtual machine and programming language implementation. Previously at Sun, he implemented automatic checkpointing in a high-performance Java virtual machine. He implemented the Tcl 8.0 and the Clarity C++ virtual machines. He also developed monitoring and debugging tools for the Spring distributed operating system. Prior to joining Sun, Brian worked at Olivetti and Acorn Research, where he implemented user interface software. At Xerox, he led the team that developed the Shared Books distributed, multi-user publication management system. He implemented portions of the Mesa programming system and developed software version management tools. He received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Brian may be reached at btlewis@acm.org.