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Overview

Jonathan Walpole is affiliated with Portland State University in the United States. Their research encompasses diverse areas within computer science, contributing to multiple subfields and topics related to distributed systems, parallel computing, and artificial intelligence.

Their main field of study is Computer Science, with a particular focus on the following subfields:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Safety Research
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Key topics of research addressed by Jonathan Walpole include:

  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy

Jonathan Walpole has contributed to at least two papers in recent years. The first, published in 2020, is titled RCU Usage In the Linux Kernel and appeared in the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. The second paper, published in 2025, is Manipulation Attacks by Misaligned AI: Risk Analysis and Safety Case Framework, available through arXiv (Cornell University).

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Paul E. McKenney
  • Joel Fernandes
  • Silas Boyd-Wickizer
  • Rishane Dassanayake
  • Mario Demetroudi

Jonathan Walpole's publications have appeared primarily in the following venues:

  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • StackGuard: automatic adaptive detection and prevention of buffer-overflow attacks

    Crispin Cowan;Calton Pu;Dave Maier;Heather Hintony

  • Buffer overflows: attacks and defenses for the vulnerability of the decade

    C. Cowan;F. Wagle;Calton Pu;S. Beattie

  • A feedback-driven proportion allocator for real-rate scheduling

    David C. Steere;Ashvin Goel;Joshua Gruenberg;Dylan McNamee

  • Research challenges in environmental observation and forecasting systems

    David C. Steere;Antonio Baptista;Dylan McNamee;Calton Pu

  • Optimistic incremental specialization: streamlining a commercial operating system

    C. Pu;T. Autrey;A. Black;C. Consel

  • A Distributed Real-Time MPEG Video Audio Player

    Shanwei Cen;Calton Pu;Richard Staehli;Crispin Cowan

  • A traffic characterization of popular on-line games

    Wu-chang Feng;Francis Chang;Wu-chi Feng;Jonathan Walpole

  • Performance of memory reclamation for lockless synchronization

    Thomas E. Hart;Paul E. Mckenney;Angela Demke Brown;Jonathan Walpole

  • Buffer overflows: attacks and defenses for the vulnerability of the decade

    C. Cowan;P. Wagle;C. Pu;S. Beattie

  • User-Level Implementations of Read-Copy Update

    M. Desnoyers;P. E. McKenney;A. S. Stern;M. R. Dagenais

  • Provisioning on-line games: a traffic analysis of a busy counter-strike server

    Francis Chang;Wu-chang Feng;Wu-chi Feng;Jonathan Walpole

  • Analysis of a reservation-based feedback scheduler

    L. Abeni;L. Palopoli;G. Lipari;J. Walpole

  • MPVM: A Migration Transparent Version of PVM

    Jeremy Casas;Dan Clark;Rabi Konuru;Steve Otto

  • Exploiting deferred destruction: an analysis of read-copy-update techniques in operating system kernels

    Paul E. Mckenney;Jonathan Walpole

  • Flow and Congestion Control for Internet Media Streaming Applications

    Shanwei Cen;Calton Pu;Jonathan Walpole

  • A measurement-based analysis of the real-time performance of linux

    L. Abeni;A. Goel;C. Krasic;J. Snow

  • Quality-adaptive media streaming by priority drop

    Charles Krasic;Jonathan Walpole;Wu-chi Feng

  • Priority progress multicast streaming for quality-adaptive transmission of data

    Jonathan Walpole;Charles Krasic

  • Adaptive load migration systems for PVM

    Jeremy Casas;Ravi Konuru;Steve W. Otto;Robert Prouty

  • The Case for Streaming Multimedia with TCP

    Charles Krasic;Kang Li;Jonathan Walpole

Frequent Co-Authors

Calton Pu
Calton Pu Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul E. McKenney
Paul E. McKenney Facebook (United States)
Wu-chi Feng
Wu-chi Feng Portland State University
David Maier
David Maier Portland State University
Gordon S. Blair
Gordon S. Blair Lancaster University
Charles Consel
Charles Consel Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux
Wu-chang Feng
Wu-chang Feng Portland State University
David Hutchison
David Hutchison Lancaster University
Ling Liu
Ling Liu Georgia Institute of Technology
Luca Abeni
Luca Abeni Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

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