Calton Pu
calton@cc.gatech.edu
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Biography
Calton Pu is currently a professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in
Software at College of Computing, Georgia Tech. Professor Pu received
his phD in Computer Science from University of Washington in 1986.
Calton's research interests are in the areas of distributed computing,
database systems, and operating systems. In distributed systems and
databases research, his focus is on extended transaction processing
and Internet applications. In operating systems, he is applying the
idea of specialization. Comparing with usual centralized systems,
distributed and parallel systems softwares display unique
characteristics in distance, complexity, extensibility, concurrency
and availability. Making software handle these problems in a reliable
and efficient way is the emphasis of Calton Pu's work. The sponsors
for Calton Pu's research include both government funding agen cies
such as DARPA, NSF, and companies from industry such as IBM, Intel,
and HP.
Professor Pu is currently an associate editor of several international
journals such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
International Journal of Digital Libraries. He has also serverd
various roles in many international conferences such as the program
co-chair of ICDE'99, the general co-chair of ICDE 1998, the PC member
of ACM SIGMOD 2000, to name a few.
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