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Computer Science

D-Index
62
Citations
16349
World Ranking
2889
National Ranking
1422

Overview

Brian N. Bershad is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their academic profile reflects involvement in research and scholarship linked to this institution.

Available data does not list recent papers, frequent co-authors, or specific publication venues associated with their work. Consequently, detailed information about the scope and impact of their publications is not provided.

There is also no recorded data regarding the main fields or subfields of study related to their research, nor any main topics of work. Similarly, details about book publications and awards received are not available.

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Best Publications

  • Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system

    B. N. Bershad;S. Savage;P. Pardyak;E. G. Sirer

  • Scheduler activations: effective kernel support for the user-level management of parallelism

    Thomas E. Anderson;Brian N. Bershad;Edward D. Lazowska;Henry M. Levy

  • The Midway distributed shared memory system

    B.N. Bershad;M.J. Zekauskas;W.A. Sawdon

  • Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems

    Michael M. Swift;Brian N. Bershad;Henry M. Levy

  • Adaptive Disk Spin-down Policies for Mobile Computers

    Fred Douglis;P. Krishnan;Brian N. Bershad

  • Recovering device drivers

    Michael M. Swift;Muthukaruppan Annamalai;Brian N. Bershad;Henry M. Levy

  • Lightweight remote procedure call

    Brian N. Bershad;Thomas E. Anderson;Edward D. Lazowska;Henry M. Levy

  • Scheduler activations: effective kernel support for the user-level management of parallelism

    Thomas E. Anderson;Brian N. Bershad;Edward D. Lazowska;Henry M. Levy

  • Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems

    Michael M. Swift;Brian N. Bershad;Henry M. Levy

  • PRESTO: a system for object-oriented parallel programming

    Brian N. Bershad;Edward D. Lazowska;Henry M. Levy

  • Midway : shared memory parallel programming with entry consistency for distributed memory multiprocessors

    Brian N. Bershad;Matthew J. Zekauskas

  • System support for pervasive applications

    Robert Grimm;Janet Davis;Eric Lemar;Adam Macbeth

  • The interaction of architecture and operating system design

    Thomas E. Anderson;Henry M. Levy;Brian N. Bershad;Edward D. Lazowska

  • Instrumentation and optimization of Win32/intel executables using Etch

    Ted Romer;Geoff Voelker;Dennis Lee;Alec Wolman

  • Protocol service decomposition for high-performance networking

    Chris Maeda;Brian N. Bershad

  • The impact of operating system structure on memory system performance

    J. Bradley Chen;Brian N. Bershad

  • Fast, effective dynamic compilation

    Joel Auslander;Matthai Philipose;Craig Chambers;Susan J. Eggers

  • SPIN: an extensible microkernel for application-specific operating system services

    Brian N. Bershad;Craig Chambers;Susan Eggers;Chris Maeda

  • SPIN—an extensible microkernel for application-specific operating system services

    Brian N. Bershad;Craig Chambers;Susan Eggers;Chris Maeda

  • Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems

    Richard P. Draves;Brian N. Bershad;Richard F. Rashid;Randall W. Dean

  • System support for pervasive applications

    Robert Grimm;Brian Bershad

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry M. Levy
Henry M. Levy University of Washington
Thomas Anderson
Thomas Anderson University of Washington
Edward D. Lazowska
Edward D. Lazowska University of Washington
Emin Gün Sirer
Emin Gün Sirer Cornell University
Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego
Michael M. Swift
Michael M. Swift University of Wisconsin–Madison
David Wetherall
David Wetherall Google (United States)
Steven D. Gribble
Steven D. Gribble Google (United States)
Geoffrey M. Voelker
Geoffrey M. Voelker University of California, San Diego
Gaetano Borriello
Gaetano Borriello University of Washington

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