Jonathan Mace receives Dennis M. Ritchie Dissertation Honorable Mention

MPI-SWS faculty member Jonathan Mace has received an honorable mention for the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Launched in 2013, the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award was created by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (ACM SIGOPS) to recognize research in software systems and to encourage the creativity that Dennis Ritchie embodied. Only one winner is chosen annually, and this year, Jonathan Mace’s dissertation received an Honorable Mention for the award.

„Many tools for monitoring and enforcing distributed systems,“ Jonathan explains, „capture information about end-to-end executions by propagating in-band contexts.“ In his thesis—A Universal Architecture for Cross-Cutting Tools in Distributed Systems„—he characterizes a broad class of such cross-cutting tools and extends these ideas to new applications in resource management and dynamic monitoring. Finally, he identifies underlying commonalities in this class of tools, and proposes an abstraction layering that simplifies their development, deployment, and reuse.