Writing and Speaking

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  Technical Publications

• Dynamic Adaptive Optimization: Recovering from Hardware Errors and Software Crashes in a Distributed Virtual Machine, MIT/CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, May 24, 2024
  
• Dynamic Adaptive Optimization: Recovering from Hardware Errors and Software Crashes in a Distributed Virtual Machine, MITRE Corp., Bedford MA, May 23, 2024
  
• Dynamic Adaptive Optimization: Recovering from Hardware Errors and Software Crashes in a Distributed Virtual Machine, TTI-Vanguard Conference on Reliability and Resiliency, University of North Carolina, March 6, 2024
• Dynamic Adaptive Optimization: Recovering from Hardware Errors and Software Crashes in a Distributed Virtual Machine, Disorderly Lab, UCSC , February 27, 2024
  
• Motivations behind TidalScale
  
• Scalable Computing Systems for Future Smart Cities
  
• Cache is indeed king TidalScale Blog Post
  
• Revisiting Scalable Coherent Shared Memory, Bell and Nassi, IEEE Computer, Special Issue: Outlook 2018, January 2018
  
• Scaling the Computer to the Problem: Application Programming with Unlimited Memory, IEEE Computer, August 2017
• SupMR: Circumventing Disk and Memory Bandwidth Bottlenecks for Scale-up MapReduce, Sevilla, Michael; Nassi, Ike, Ioannidou, Kleoni; Brandt, Scott; Maltzahn, Carlos, 2014 IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, May 2014
  
• Mantle: A Programmable Metadata Load Balancer for the Ceph File System, Supercomputer 15, Michael Sevilla, Carlos Maltzahn, Ike Nassi, Scott Brandt, Sage Weil, Greg Farnum, Sam Fineberg
• A Framework for an In-depth Comparison of Scale-up and Scale-out, Mike Sevilla, Ike Nassi, Kleoni Ioannidou, Scott Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, DISCS-2013: Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems
  
• Transactional Intent, Shel Finkelstein, Thomas Heinzel, Rainer Brendle, Ike Nassi, and Heinz Roggenkemper, 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '11), January 2011
  
• Y. Karabulut and I. Nassi: Secure Enterprise Service Consumption for SaaS Technology Platforms, 1st IEEE Workshop on Information and Software as Services, Shangai, China, March 2009,
  
• The Challenges of Application Service Hosting, Ike Nassi, Joydip Das, and Ming-Chien Shan,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag 4607/2007, Web Engineering, Pages 545-549.
• Secure Scripting Based Composite Application Development: Framework, Architecture, and Implementation by Dinkelaker, Johnstone, Karabulut, and Nassi.  In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, and Worksharing, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, et al.  New York, Nov. 12-15, 2007.
  
• Government Agency Interoperation in Security Applications by N. Adams et al, Chapter 14, Handbooks in Information Systems Volume 2, National Security. Elsevier 2007.  Edited by H. Chen et al.
• Semantics-based Threat Structure Mining, Adam et al, Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Digital Government Research
• The Digital World is the Real World, ComputerWorld, Inc., August 2006
  
• Preface to the book “Dylan, An Object Oriented Dynamic Language”.  Apple Computer Inc. (1992).
• Symmetric Parallel Processing, w/ Ilya Gertner, in the book "Aerospace Software Engineering", Chris Anderson, ed. Volume 136 Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics (1991)
• A Preliminary Report on the UltraMax, DARPA Conference on Mathematical and Scientific  Computing, 1987, (Syracuse University)
• An Analysis of Continuous Time Simulation on a Shared Memory Multiprocessor, with S. Mainwaring, Encore Technical Report 87-001
• The Encore Multimax: A Multiprocessor Computing Environment, with Moore, O’Neil, Siewiorek,  in 32-Bit Microprocessors, Nikkei Datapro Books II (1986)
• The Encore Continuum: A Complete Distributed Workstation-Multiprocessor Computing Environment, with G. Bell, H. Burkhardt, S. Emmerich, A. Anzelmo, R. Moore, D. Schanin, and C. Rupp, Proceedings of the National Computer Conference, AFIPS Vol. 54, pp. 147-155, 1985
  
• Liberty Net, An Architectural Overview, IEEE Compcon, 1982
• What is Ada?, with R. Brender,  June 1981 IEEE Computer
  
• A Critical Look at the Process of Tool Development: An Industrial Perspective, in Software Development Tools, Riddle and Fairley (eds.), Springer Verlag, 1980
• Efficient Implementation of Ada Tasks, with A. N. Habermann, DEC Technical Report, 1980 (Tech. Rept. CMU-CS-81-147, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 1981)
  
• VAX-11 Software Engineering Manual, January 1977
  
• Control Structure Semantics for Programming Languages (Ike Nassi 1974 PhD Thesis)
  
• Operational Equivalence and a Hierarchy of Control Languages, Eighth Annual Princeton Systems Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 1974
• Nassi, I.R. and Akkoyunlu, E.A. "Verification Techniques for a hierarchy of Control Structures", Technical Report #26, Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY Stony Brook, January 1974, 48 pp
  
• Structured Flowcharts, with B. Shneiderman, SIGPLAN Notices, 1973

Invited Conference Presentations and Panel Discussions:

• The Practical Advantages of Distributed Virtual Machines and How They Work (UCSC LSD Seminar)
  
• Using a Scaled-up Software-Defined Server as an Alternative to Scaling Out (IEEE  Computer Society Industry Spotlight)
  
• TTI/VScale Up or Scale Out? (TTI/Vanguard) 2021-09-21
  
• Insights and Motivations for TidalScale (video)
  
• The Importance of In-Memory Computing (video)
  
• Invited Presentation:  In- and Near-Memory Computing Paradigms, Software Defined Servers, 2019 Design Automation Conference, Las Vegas Convention Center; 2019-June
  
• Seminar on Software-Defined Servers, ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea; 2019-May (with pictures)
  
• Invited Keynote Presentation: Software Defined Servers, Multicore and Multiprocessor SOCs Forum 2018
  
• Blog: Achieving Painless Reliability: An Alternate Approach 2018-05
  
• Blog: Predicting Yesterday’s Weather   (2017-05)
• How to Build a Software-Defined Server, and How Best to Use it, invited presentation, Supercomputing Frontiers Conference 2017, Singapore
  
• Comparing a Virtual Supercomputer with a Cluster for Spark in-memory Computations, Machine Learning Converence 2016 New York, April 2016
  
• Advances in Virtualization In Support of In-Memory Big Data Applications, Faculty Colloquium, Computer Science Department, SUNY Stony Brook
  
• Advances in Virtualization In Support of In-Memory Big Data Applications, HTPS September 2015
• Exploring Resource Migration using the CephFS Metadata cluster, Michael Sevilla, Scott Brandt, Carlos Maltzahn, Ike Nassi, Sam Fineberg,12th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology (FAST 2014), Feb. 2014
  
• Software-Scaled Computing: Resizing the Computer to Fit the Application, TTI-Vanguard - “Reprogramming Programming”, 2014-09-30, Washington DC, (video of presentation@YouTube)
• The Emergence of Data Science, Why Now?, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz,, October, 2013
• A Framework for an In-depth Comparison of Scale-up and Scale-out, Michael Sevilla, Ike Nassi, Kleoni Ioannidou, Scott Brandt and Carlos Maltzahn, The 2013 International Workshop on
Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS-2013) November 18, 2013
  
• MITRE Corporation, "Enterprise Supercomputers", McLean VA & Bedford MA (telecast), October 13, 2011
• TTI/Vanguard, "Real" Real Time Conference, Enterprise Supercomputers, Paris, July 12, 2011
• SAP Closing keynote, SAP Research Day, July 5, 2011, Catching the Wave: Tackling the Inflection Point in Enterprise Computing
  
• Microsoft Research on Enterprise Supercomputers, June 17, 2011
  
• MIT/CSAIL on Enterprise Supercomputers, June 1, 2011
  
• MIT/Sloan on Enterprise Supercomputers, June 1, 2011
  
• Invited Keynote Presentation -Third Symposium of the HyperTransport™ Center of Excellence Mannheim, February 8-9th, 2011
• Transactional Intent with Shel Finkelstein, Thomas Heinzel, Rainer Brendle, Ike Nassi and Heinz Roggenkemper. 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR '11) January 9-12, 2011, Asilomar, California, USA.
  
• Invited presentation - It's Groundhog Day all over again! JHTC, July 13, 2010
• End-to-End Confidentiality for a Message Warehousing Service Using Identity-Based Encryption Yuecel Karabulut, Harald Weppner, Ike Nassi, Anusha Nagarajan, Yash Shroff, Nishant Dubey, Shields, ICDE Workshops 2010
  
• Invited Keynote Presentation - Web Services: Meeting the Software Challenge of Future HW and Global Business Trends (July 11 2007) 2007 IEEE Congress on Services (Joint Conference: IEEE International conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007) and IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007))
• Panel Discussion - Innovating with Partners in China: Negotiation, Collaboration, and IP Strategies for New Product Development (March 28-29, 2007) The Management Roundtable (http://www.ManagementRoundtable.com)
• Induction of Alan Kay into the Computer Resellers News Hall of Fame (November 2006)
• Issues in Wireless Mesh Networking, Distinguished Alumni Lecture, 35th Anniversay of the Founding of Stony Book University's Computer Science Department (May 2005)
• The Advantage of Invisibility and Cooperation in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE 802.11 TGs, Atlanta (March 2005)
• "Wireless Mesh Networks", Red Herring 100 conference, Monterey (December 2004)
• Panel: Wireless Mesh Networks, WiFi Planet conference, San Jose (November 2004)
• Panel: Wireless Mesh Networks, Next Generation Networks (November 2004)
• Webinar (Unstrung): Introduction to Wireless Mesh Networks (July 2004)
• Webinar: (Unstrung): Wireless Mesh Networks (June 2004)
• Panel: "Putting HotSpots to Work", CeBIT America (May 2004)
• Panel on Mesh Networking, Eye for Wireless Conference, San Francisco (April 2004)
• Emergence of Wireless Mesh Networking, O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego (February 2004)
• Panel on Wireless Mesh Networking, WiFi Planet, December 2003
• The Emergence of Wireless Local Area Mesh Networks, TTI Vanguard Conference on Resiliency, Brussels (July, 2002)
• Embedded Process Forum, panel on Internet Appliances (June, 2000)
• Spring Internet World (1998)
• Fortune Magazine Information Technology Conference, panel on Internet Appliances(1998)
• PC-Expo (1998)
• Apple Technology Forum, Beijing (1994)
• Apple WorldWide Developers Conference (1994, 1995, 1996)
• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (March 1993)
• Rochester Apple Developer’s Association (January 1993)
• Bay Area MADA (May, 1992)
• Invited Presentation on Advanced Technology at Apple (1992), Harvard Business School
• U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance.  Testimony on HR 531, “Emerging Telecommunications Act of 1991” (March 12, 1991)
• Boston Computer Society Mac MegaMeeting (1990)
• C-3 Technology Assessment Conference, Defense Communications Agency and the National Security Industrial Association (1989)
• SDIO Parallel Processing Users Group (1987, 1988)
• San Diego SIGAda (1988)
• Bay Area SIGAda (1988)
• Colloquium, Iowa State University (1989)
• Boston SICPLAN (1987)
• National Computer Conference (1987)

Recent Interviews

• Interview on Phoenix TV (China)
  
• Q&A: The Digital World Is the Real World
• When RFID Is Everywhere, How Will You Cope