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

Hello and welcome to my home page! My research is in operating systems, distributed systems and networks, broadly focusing on performance, reliability and security of Internet-scale systems with highly decentralized control. I teach our core classes on Principles of Operating Systems (at both the undergraduate upper divison and graduate levels), as well as lower division core classes on Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. I also teach some fun freshman and senior seminars on "The Slide Rule" and "The Science of Casino Games." During summers, I lead a summer study-abroad program in Rome, Italy, titled "Mathematical Beauty in Rome," where we study the architectural geometry and structural engineering of classical Roman monuments.

Latest news and activities

I am on sabbatical during Fall 2017 and away from UCSD
A paper on the Mathematical Beauty in Rome study-abroad program can be found here

Research areas and topics

Areas: operating systems, distributed systems and networks
Current topics: cloud computing, peer-to-peer systems, thin-client computing
Past topics: long-running replicated systems, network-based I/O, I/O system software, extended client/server structures, mobile agents, packet scheduling for network QoS, OS/network support for multimedia (audio and video), TCP/IP performance, file system I/O performance, multicast routing

Past Courses

CSE 20: Discrete Mathematics
CSE 21: Mathematics for Algorithms and Systems
CSE 120: Principles of Operating Systems
CSE 121: Operating Systems: Architecture and Implementation
CSE 122: Operating Systems Laboratory
CSE 221: Graduate Operating Systems

Freshman Seminars

CSE 87: The Science of Casino Games
CSE 87: The Slide Rule: History, Theory, and Practice
CSE 87: Freshman Seminar on Engineering the Roman Empire

Senior Seminars

CSE 192: Senior Seminar on Advanced Slide Rule
CSE 192: Senior Seminar on Exploring Operating Systems
CSE 192: Senior Seminar on Engineering the Roman Empire

Global Seminar (Summer Study Abroad)

Affiliations

Miscellaneous

NPR article on slide rules that mentions UCSD's Slide Rule Seminar
Why Does A Slide Rule Work? , 2014 Oughtred Society conference in Las Vegas.
Paper on Mathematical Foundations of the Slide Rule, presented at the International Meeting for Collectors of Historical Calculating Instruments (IM 2011), Cambridge, MA.
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.

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... What do you think the real University is? ...

The real University, [Phaedrus] said, has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. It's a state of mind which is regenerated throughout the centuries by a body of people who traditionally carry the title of professor, but even that title is not part of the real University. The real University is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself.

from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
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