kristi-positano-italia Kristi Morton (née DiBennardo)


I am currently a second year computer science graduate student at the University of Texas, Austin. My general research interests are in compilers and programming languages.  I work with Dr. William Cook on the Orc language.

I am an AT&T Labs Fellowship recipient and interned at AT&T's Shannon Laboratory over the summer of 2006, where I worked on a distributed extension of XQuery.  I had the pleasure of doing this research with Trevor Jim and Mary Fernandez.

I am an alumna of Rice University in Houston, Texas, and a former employee of Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas.  At Freescale, I worked on the GNU C Compiler (GCC), where I added backend support and optimizations for various embedded PowerPC architectures.


Contact Information

Office: ACES 3SEi2E
Department of Computer Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX 78712-0233 USA
kmorton at cs dot utexas dot edu
Photo taken in Positano, Italy
Publications
DXQ: A Distributed XQuery Scripting Language
International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience, and Perspectives (XIME-P), 2007
Mary F. Fernandez, Trevor Jim, Kristi Morton, Nicola Onose, Jerome Simeon

Highly Distributed XQuery with DXQ
International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2007
Mary F. Fernandez, Trevor Jim, Kristi Morton, Nicola Onose, Jerome Simeon

Technical Reports
Orc-X: Combining Orchestrations and XQuery
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, December 2007, Report# TR-07-63. 
Kristi Morton, David Kitchin, William Cook

CV (pdf)


Classes


Spring 08 CS 388S
GRS 390W
CS 698B
Formal Verification and Semantics 
Grant Writing, Thesis Writing, Publishing
Thesis
(Emerson)

(Cook)
Fall 07 CS 383C      
GRS 392W
CS 698B
Grad Numerical Analysis: Linear Algebra 
Professional and Academic Writing
Thesis
(van de Geijn)

(Cook)
Summer 07 CS 698A       Thesis (Cook)
Spring 07 CS 386L
CS 395T
CS 395      
Graduate Programming Languages  
Computation Orchestration               
Conference Course 
(Cook)
(Misra)
(Cook)
Fall  06   CS 382M
CS 380C
CS 389T
Advanced Computer Architecture     
Advanced Compiler Techniques        
Supervised Teaching in Computer Science
(Burger)
(McKinley)

    
Other interests
    Percussion & cacophony
    During my undergrad days at Rice, I played bass drum in the Marching Owl Band (MOB).  Later, I learned how to play a full drum set.

    Feats of strength
    I enjoy rock climbing around Austin and at the North Austin Rock Gym