University of Richmond

Dr. Barry Lawson

Associate Professor of Computer Science
218 Jepson Hall
Office: (804) 287-6393

http://www.mathcs.richmond.edu/~blawson

Teaching:
Simulation
Elementary Programming
Discrete Structures for Computing

Research:
Simulation
Parallel and Distributed Systems

Education:
Ph.D., College of William and Mary

Selected Publications:

Lawson, B., & Barnett, L. (2008) Using iPodLinux in an Introductory OS Course. Proceedings of the 39th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, OR, March 2008.

Szajda, D., Pohl, M., Owen, J., & Lawson, B. (2006) Toward a Practical Data Privacy Scheme for a Distributed Implementation of the Smith-Waterman Genome Sequence Comparison Algorithm. Proceedings of the 2006 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA, February 2006.

Szajda, D., Lawson, B., & Owen, J. (2005) Toward An Optimal Redundancy Strategy for Distributed Computations. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Boston, MA, September 2005.

Lawson, B., & Smirni, E. (2005) Power-aware Resource Allocation in High-end Systems via Online Simulation. Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, pages 229–238, Cambridge, MA, June 2005.

Lawson, B., & Smirni, E. (2005) Self-Adaptive Scheduler Parameterization Via Online Simulation. Proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Denver, CO, April 2005.

Szajda, D., Lawson, B., Owen, W. (2003) Hardening Functions for Large-Scale Distributed Computations. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pages 216-224, Berkeley, CA, May 2003.

Lawson, B., Smirni, E., & Puiu, D. (2002) Self-adapting Backfilling Scheduling for Parallel Systems. Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing, pages 583-592, Vancouver, B.C., August 2002. 

Lawson, B., & Park, S. (2000) Asynchronous Time Evolution in an Artificial Society Model. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 3(1), January 2000.