Glenn Skinner is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. His research interests focus on the confluence of operating systems and the Java Platform. He is currently a member of the Celeste project, which is exploring reliable, highly distributed file storage system technology.
Before moving to Sun Labs, he spent many years at Sun as an operating systems developer, contributing to many areas of the Solaris kernel, including STREAMS, the virtual memory subsystem, and, most significantly, the file system infrastructure. After a short detour into the Sun Cluster group, he became a JVM implementer, which forced him to notice the similarities between operating systems and Java Virtual Machines, and sparked his interest in fostering their harmonious coexistence.
