Joe Pasquale J. Robert Beyster Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0404 La Jolla, CA   92093-0404 Email:   pasquale (at) cs.ucsd.edu Phone: (858) 534-2673   |   (858) 534-7029 (fax) Office:   EBU3B 3112 (map, directions) Ph.D. (CS), UC Berkeley, 1988 S.B., S.M. (EECS), MIT, 1982 Biography   Papers   Research   Students

Latest news and activities

• Planning is underway for Mathematical Beauty in Rome (CSE 4GS/6GS) for Summer 2012
• On why a slide rule works (in case you were wondering): Mathematical Foundations of the Slide Rule

Research areas and topics

• Areas: operating systems, distributed systems and networks
• Current topics: cloud computing, peer-to-peer systems, network-based I/O, I/O system software, long-running replicated systems
• Past topics: OS/network support for multimedia (audio and video), TCP/IP performance, file system I/O performance, multicast routing

Courses

• CSE 20: Discrete Mathematics (Winter 12)
• CSE 120: Principles of Operating Systems (Winter 12)
• CSE 21: Mathematics for Algorithms and Systems (Winter 10)
• CSE 221: Graduate Operating Systems (Winter 08)

Freshman seminars

• CSE 87: The Science of Casino Games (Winter 09)
• CSE 87: The Slide Rule: History, Theory, and Practice (Spring 07)

Global Seminar (Summer Study Abroad)

• CSE 4GS/6GS: Mathematical Beauty in Rome (Summer 2010)

Affiliations

• CSE Systems and Networking Group
• Center for Networked Systems
• Center for Wireless Communications
• Cal-IT2: California Institute for Telecommuncations and Information Technology
• COSMOS: Cal Summer School for Math/Science ( promo video, 2007, 2006, 2005 )

Miscellaneous

• Experiences Teaching the UCSD Freshman Seminar on Slide Rule , 2009 Oughtred Society conference in Las Vegas.
• The Slide Rule: Calculating by Mind and Hand , 2005 Oughtred Society conference at MIT.