Dr. Mick Jordan Senior Staff Engineer
Project Guest VM Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
16 Network Circle umpk16-158 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Mick Jordan is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he works on the Guest VM project that is exploring the implementation of Java Virtual Machines on the Xen hypervisor. His research interests include Application servers, Database systems, Distributed Systems, Java, Middleware, Operating Systems, Performance Analysis and Programming Languages.
Mick joined Sun Labs in August 1993 to work on the use of object-oriented database technology in an environment to support large-scale software development. In 1995 he became the Principal Investigator of the Forest project which continued this work in the context of the newly released Java(TM) platform. Forest spawned a collaborative research project with Glasgow University, UK, that generated a series of prototype Java(TM) Virtual Machines (PJama) that implemented Orthogonal Persistence for the Java platform. Mick then worked on the Barcelona project investigating the application of the Multi-tasking Virtual Machine (MVM) and its resource management capabilities to the Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM))
Prior to Sun, Mick worked on several research projects at Acorn Research Center, Olivetti Research, and Digital Systems Research Center, where he was a member of the team that designed and implemented the Modula-3 programming language.
Education:
* PhD Computer Science 1982,University of Cambridge, UK * BA Theoretical Physics 1973,University of Lancaster, UK
