Dr. Peter Kessler Senior Staff Engineer
Portmeirion Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
16 Network Circle umpk16-158 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Peter Kessler is a Senior Staff Engineer for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Portmeirion project.
Peter is interested in the implementation of programming languages. While at Berkeley he co-authored the Berkeley Pascal compiler, which he ported to the Sun M68000 system in 1983. He spent 5 years at Xerox PARC moving the Cedar language from proprietary hardware to commercial processors. He joined Sun Labs in 1990 to work on the RPC system for the Spring operating system. That morphed into the Java IDL system when the Java platform emerged. Since then he's worked on core libraries, performance, and garbage collection in the HotSpot Java virtual machine. He looks forward to co-designing the Portmeirion machine.
Education:
* PhD EE&CS 1984,University of California, Berkeley * MS EE&CS 1980,University of California, Berkeley * BS Engineering 1973,Yale College
