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William J. Bolosky publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William J. Bolosky sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 84 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

William J. Bolosky D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William J. Bolosky sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

William J. Bolosky is a researcher affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Computer Science.

Their recent publication includes the paper titled Fuzzy set intersection based paired-end short-read alignment, published in 2021 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). This work has been cited eight times.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Arun Subramaniyan
  • Matei Zaharia
  • Ravi Pandya
  • Taylor Sittler
  • David A. Patterson

William J. Bolosky's research covers various main topics such as:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Algorithms and Data Compression
  • Gene expression and cancer classification

Within these areas, their work addresses several subfields, including:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Artificial Intelligence

Publication venues highlight bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) as a place where their research has appeared. This reflects an engagement with platforms that serve the biological and computational research communities.

Best Publications

  • Mach: A New Kernel Foundation for UNIX Development.

    Michael J. Accetta;Robert V. Baron;William J. Bolosky;David B. Golub

  • Farsite: federated, available, and reliable storage for an incompletely trusted environment

    Atul Adya;William J. Bolosky;Miguel Castro;Gerald Cermak

  • Reclaiming space from duplicate files in a serverless distributed file system

    J.R. Douceur;A. Adya;W.J. Bolosky;P. Simon

  • Feasibility of a serverless distributed file system deployed on an existing set of desktop PCs

    William J. Bolosky;John R. Douceur;David Ely;Marvin Theimer

  • A five-year study of file-system metadata

    Nitin Agrawal;William J. Bolosky;John R. Douceur;Jacob R. Lorch

  • A study of practical deduplication

    Dutch T. Meyer;William J. Bolosky

  • Laboratory validation of a clinical metagenomic sequencing assay for pathogen detection in cerebrospinal fluid

    Steve Miller;Samia N. Naccache;Samia N. Naccache;Erik Samayoa;Kevin Messacar

  • On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system

    William J. Bolosky;Gerald Cermak;Atul Adya;John R. Douceur

  • Cooperative Task Management Without Manual Stack Management

    Atul Adya;Jon Howell;Marvin Theimer;William J. Bolosky

  • Method and system for automatically merging files into a single instance store

    William J. Bolosky;John R. Douceur;Scott M. Cutshall

  • Serverless distributed file system

    Atul Adya;William J. Bolosky;Gerald Cermak;John R. Douceur

  • Single instance store for file systems

    William J. Bolosky;John R. Douceur;Scott M. Cutshall;Richard F. Rashid

  • Machine-independent virtual memory management for paged uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures

    Unknown

  • Hardware architecture for cloud services

    William H. Gates;Gary W. Flake;William J. Bolosky;Nishant V. Dani

  • A large-scale study of file-system contents

    John R. Douceur;William J. Bolosky

  • The duality of memory and communication in the implementation of a multiprocessor operating system

    Unknown

  • Marketplace for cloud services resources

    Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer;William H. Gates;Gary W. Flake;William J. Bolosky

  • Faster and More Accurate Sequence Alignment with SNAP

    Matei Zaharia;William J. Bolosky;Kristal Curtis;Armando Fox

  • Single instance storage in Windows® 2000

    William J. Bolosky;Scott Corbin;David Goebel;John R. Douceur

  • Simple but effective techniques for NUMA memory management

    W. Bolosky;R. Fitzgerald;M. Scott

  • Video on demand system comprising stripped data across plural storable devices with time multiplex scheduling

    Robert P. Fitzgerald;Joseph S. Barrera;William J. Bolosky;Richard P. Draves

  • A study of practical deduplication

    Dutch T. Meyer;William J. Bolosky

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Douceur
John R. Douceur Microsoft (United States)
Atul Adya
Atul Adya Google (United States)
Marvin M. Theimer
Marvin M. Theimer Microsoft (United States)
Alexander G. Gounares
Alexander G. Gounares Microsoft (United States)
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer Microsoft (United States)
James R. Larus
James R. Larus École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gary W. Flake
Gary W. Flake Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Michael L. Scott
Michael L. Scott University of Rochester
William H. Gates
William H. Gates Microsoft (United States)
Lili Cheng
Lili Cheng Microsoft (United States)

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