Dr. Mario Wolczko Research Director and Distinguished Principal Engineer
Portmeirion Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
16 Network Circle umpk16-158 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Mario Wolczko is a researcher for Sun Microsystems Laboratories. His current projects include computer architectures for object-based systems and performance instrumentation hardware design and usage.
He joined Sun Labs in 1993, and has worked on the Self system, various research and production JVMs, and two SPARC microprocessors.
His research interests include object-oriented programming language design and usage, the implementation of virtual machines (in both hardware and software), memory system design and management (including garbage collection) and the co-design of virtual machines and hardware architectures.
Education:
* Ph.D. "Semantics of Object-Oriented Languages", 1987, University of Manchester
* M.Sc. "Implementing Smalltalk-80 on the ICL Perq", 1984, University of Manchester
* B.Sc. Computer Science, 1983, University of Manchester
