Jayadev Misra
Professor and Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Science
Mailing Address, Phone, Fax, Email
Jayadev Misra
Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Univ. of Texas at Austin, Mail Code: D9500
1616 Guadalupe, Suite 2.408
Austin, Texas 78701
Voice: 512-471-9550
Fax: 512-471-8885
email: "My last name"@cs.utexas.edu
Home Page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/misra
Education
B.Tech. (1969), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Ph.D. (1972), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Honors, Awards, and Professional Service
Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas, 2010.
Doctor Honoris Causa, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France, 2010.
Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Texas at Austin, 2009.
ACM Fellow, 1995.
IEEE Fellow, 1992.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1989.
Chair, Computer Science Dept., UT, Austin, 1994-1997.
Summary of Research, Research Group
My interest is in applying formal methods in practice, particularly in
the specifications and designs of concurrent systems. My current
research focusses on the design of a concurrent programming language,
Orc. See http://orc.csres.utexas.edu
Publications and Speeches
Verfied
Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments. A joint project with Tony Hoare.
The Orc Project, a system for
orchestrating concurrent and distributed computations
Selected
Publications and Books
Notes
on UNITY
Unpublished Short Notes
Texts of Speeches
Slides used in Presentations
Teaching
CS 336 (Analysis of Algorithms)
Class Handouts and
Tests and Solutions
CS 337 (Theory in Programming Practice)
Class Handouts
and
Tests and Solutions and
Other
CS 380D (Distributed Computing)
Class Home page for Fall 2009