Derek White Staff Engineer
Squawk Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
1 Network Drive, Building #2 ubur02-311 Burlington, MA 01803
Derek White is a Staff Engineer for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Squawk project. After working for years on enabling Java to scale up to large CMT systems, he is now helping Java scale down to embeddable dimensions.
Previously he worked on Java simulation and performance analysis for Niagara processors, garbage collection and JVM performance issues at Sun Labs, a JVM for an unnamed 64-bit OS at Novell, and the Dylan programming language and development environment at Apple Computer, Inc.
His research interests include application instrospection (profiling, monitoring, debugging, Compilation, Debugging, Distributed Systems, Garbage Collection, Java, JVM, Object Oriented Programming, Operating Systems, Performance Analysis, Programming Languages, Robots, User Interfaces, Virtual Machines and Wireless sensor networks.
