September 1996 to Present: Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
| Thesis: | A Scalable Partial-Order Data Structure for Distributed-System Observation |
| Supervisor: David Taylor |
1993: MASc (Computer Engineering), University of Waterloo
| Thesis: | A Propositional Meta-Constraint System: Specification, Application and Implementation |
1988: BScE (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering Option), University of New Brunswick
| Rank: | First out of graduating class of about one thousand |
| Governor General's Medal for top graduating student | |
| Lieutenant Governor's Medal for top engineering student | |
| Brydone Jack Prize for top electrical engineering student |
Paul A.S. Ward and David J. Taylor. A hierarchical cluster algorithm for dynamic, centralized timestamps. In IEEE 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Phoenix, April 2001.
Paul A.S. Ward. A framework algorithm for dynamic, centralized dimension-bounded timestamps. In Proceedings of the 2000 CAS Conference, Toronto, November 2000.
Paul A.S. Ward. An offline algorithm for dimension-bound analysis. In Dhabaleswar Panda and Norio Shiratori, editors, Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing, pages 128-136. IEEE Computer Society, 1999.
Paul A.S. Ward. An online algorithm for dimension-bound analysis. In P. Amestoy, et al, editors, EuroPar'99 Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 1685, pages 144-153. Springer-Verlag, 1999.
Paul A.S. Ward and David J. Taylor. Centralized Cluster Timestamps. Technical Report CS-2000-16, Shoshin Distributed Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1, October 2000. Available in PostScript or Gzipped PostScript
Paul A.S. Ward. On the scalability of distributed debugging: Vector clock size. Technical Report CS98-29, Shoshin Distributed Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1, December '98. Available at PostScript or Gzipped PostScript
Bell Research Fair. Adaptive Mobile Applications. Toronto, November 2000.
| - | Problems in parallel and distributed computing, especially programming languages and debugger design, and dependable distributed systems. | |
| - | Network routing problems, especially scalable multicast routing with quality of service, routing with non-hierarchical IP addressing, and routing in ad hoc networks. | |
| - | Mobile, wireless, ubiquitous computing. | |
| - | Secure network protocols. |
February 1998 to Present: System
Administrator for the
Shoshin Distributed Systems Group
| - | Maintain heterogeneous network of workstations consisting of a dozen RS/6000 machines running AIX 4.3+, two SunOS machines, a DEC Ultrix machine, several laptops and a dozen PCs running a combination of Redhat Linux and WindowsNT. The machines are connected via a combination of 10 Mbit/s Ethernet, 100 Mbit/s FDDI and a wireless Wavelan network. | |
| - | Maintain http://www.shoshin.uwaterloo.ca/ web site. |
May 1997 to Present: Visiting Researcher,
IBM Toronto Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario
| - | Assist with the development of Object-Level Trace (OLT) for the IBM Component Broker Series (CBS) and IBM WebSphere products. OLT is created from a research prototype developed by Professor David Taylor at the University of Waterloo. I have integrated various changes in the research prototype into the product. | |
| - | Study problems of scaling OLT to very large numbers of concurrently executing objects. These problems form the core of my Ph.D. research. | |
| - | Analyzed the dimension of distributed computations. This work led to the development of more-efficient means of monitoring and debugging distributed systems. | |
| - | Developed algorithms for scalable vector timestamps for use in OLT. |
1994 to 1996: Software Developer,
IBM Toronto Laboratory, Toronto,
Ontario
| - | Designed, implemented and tested fast parallel load utility for DB2/Parallel Edition. The utility partitions the data, transmits it to the relevant database nodes, formats and loads the data. | |
| - | Developed method of allowing extension of database engine at the physical file level. This method was used for the implementation of the fast parallel load utility. | |
| - | Test-case development for automated testing. Moved test-case development work from C to Perl allowing for more portable tests and faster test-case development. | |
| - | Supported FVWM and LATEX in the Database Group. |
1993: Visiting Researcher,
Weizmann Institute of Science
| - | Invited by Professor Ehud Shapiro to do groupware research and development. | |
| - | Designed and implemented software for audio conferencing over the Internet. | |
| - | Integrated audio-conferencing software into groupware prototype. | |
| - | This prototype led to the development of Virtual Places groupware over the Internet. |
1988 to 1990: Design Engineer,
Applied Microelectronics, Halifax, Nova Scotia
| - | Designed hardware and software for data translator that receives two input data streams, a DR11/W stream from a PDP 11/44 and a serial 124.8 kbit/s NRZ stream. The serial stream is filtered based on operator inputs, merged with the DR11/W stream and a single 115.2 kbit/s stream of HDLC frames is produced. This work was done as part of the Weather Star 4000 project for The Weather Channel. | |
| - | Various other hardware and firmware design and implementation for real-time embedded systems. | |
| - | Studied methods to implement two gigabyte, 60 ns per port, 16-port memory architecture. This work was core preliminary work and led Applied Microelectronics to receiving the contract for the development of the memory subsystem for the Next Generation Signal Processor (NGSP) for Defense Research Establishment Atlantic (DREA). | |
| - | Project management, including cost and schedule estimation and partial management of two technicians and a secretary. |
| - | Taught CS454/CS654: Computer Networks Distributed Systems. | |
| - | 1999 class size: 71 undergraduates in CS454 and 12 graduates in CS 654 | |
| - | 1998 class size: 54 undergraduates in CS454 and 4 graduates in CS 654 |
May to August 1996: Sessional Instructor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
| - | Taught CMPT-275: Introduction to Software Engineering. | |
| - | Class size was 47 undergraduates |
September 1996 to present: Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
| - | Graduate student representative on the University of Waterloo Computer Science Chair Selection Committee, 2001 | |
| - | Graduate student representative on the Computer Science Departmental Advisory Committee on Appointments, 2000 | |
| - | Organize the weekly networks and distributed-systems seminar, 1999 to present. | |
| - | Referee for various conferences, including PACT, IM, ICPP and CASCON. | |
| - | Representative at large on the Software Engineering Curriculum Development Committee in the School of Computing Science of Simon Fraser University, 1996 |
| 2000: | IBM CAS Fellowship ($25,000 extended for a fourth year) | |
| 1999: | Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology ($15,000) | |
| University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship ($2,666) | ||
| 1998: | Meloche Monnex Scholarship ($7,500) | |
| 1997: | IBM CAS Fellowship ($25,000 per year for three years) | |
| 1996: | Institute for Computer Research Scholarship ($4,000 per year for three years) | |
| 1991: | Faculty of Engineering Award ($600) | |
| 1990: | NSERC '67 Scholarship for top fifty science students in Canada ($21,300 per year for four years) | |
| Institute for Computer Research Award ($3,000) | ||
| 1988: | Governor General's Medal for top graduating student | |
| Lieutenant Governor's Medal for top engineering student | ||
| Brydone Jack Prize for top electrical engineering student | ||
| 1987: | K.R. Chestnut Memorial Prize ($1,750) | |
| 1986: | Leonard Foundation Scholarship ($1,300) | |
| K.R. Chestnut Memorial Prize ($1,750) | ||
| 1985: | Leonard Foundation Scholarship ($1,250) | |
| APENB Engineering Prize I ($200) | ||
| 1984: | Lord Beaverbrook Scholarship ($2,500 per year for four years) | |
| Leonard Foundation Scholarship ($1,200) | ||
| Governor General's Medal for top graduating student (high school) |
| Programming Languages | C/C++ (15 years)
Java (2 years) Perl (5 years) SQL/ODBC (DB2) (2 years) Prolog (3 years) Various assembly languages, including 6502, 8044, 8085, x86, 68K Miscellaneous other languages including TCL/TK, Fortran, Scheme, Lisp and PL/1 |
| Development Platforms | Unix, including Linux, AIX, SunOS, Solaris (expert)
WindowsNT/Windows2000 (comfortable) |
| Other skills | TCP/IP Socket Programming (8 years)
Client/Server Programming (8 years) Parallel Programming, including PVM and CVM (6 years) Object-oriented analysis and design (2 years) |
| - | Citizenship: British and Canadian | |
| - | Member: IEEE | |
| - | Professional Engineer (registered in New Brunswick) | |
| - | Study Biblical and modern Hebrew | |
| - | Voracious reader, including Judaica, philosophy, history (especially history of science and technology), popular science and science fiction | |
| - | Enjoy soccer, swimming and hiking |
| Dr. David Taylor, Professor
Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 4432 Fax: (519) 885-1208 E-mail: dtaylor@shoshin.uwaterloo.ca |
Dr. Johnny Wong, Professor
Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 4431 Fax: (519) 885-1208 E-mail: jwwong@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca |
| Dr. Jay Black, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 5474 Fax: (519) 885-1208 E-mail: jpblack@uwaterloo.ca |
| Salvatore Vella
IBM Toronto Laboratory 1150 Eglinton Avenue East, North York, Ontario Phone: (416) 448-2126 E-mail: vella@ca.ibm.com |
| Dr. Ehud Shapiro, Professor
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot 76100, Israel Phone: 972 8 934 4506 E-mail: Ehud.Shapiro@weizmann.ac.il |