John Carroll
Professor, Computer Science
GMCS 537
Department of Computer Sciences
San Diego State University

(619) 594-7242 / carroll@cs.sdsu.edu

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I am Professor of Computer Science at San Diego State University in the Department of Computer Science. I am also affiliated with the Concurrent Systems Laboratory, part of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Director of that laboratory is Darrell Long, who was one of my students and now is a frequent research collaborator. My other frequent collaborator is Jehan-François Pâris of the University of Houston.

My research interests include analysis of computer systems. Previously I worked in the area of data replication. My work in studying computer reliability using the Internet has drawn significant interest.

I frequently hike the Grand Canyon. I invite you to spend some time visiting my photo gallery.

Courses

• CS 220 UNIX and the C Language.
• CS 425 Tcl & Tk Interface Programming.
• CS 470 Unix System Administration.
• CS 560 Algorithms.
• CS 562 Automata Theory.
• CS 566 Queueing Theory.

Selected Publications

• John L. Carroll and Darrell D. E. Long. Theory of Finite Automata. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1989.

• Darrell D. E. Long, John L. Carroll, and C. J. Park. "A Study of the Reliability of Internet Sites," Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Pisa: IEEE, September 1991, pp. 177-186.

• Darrell D. E. Long, John L. Carroll and Kris Stewart. "Estimating the Reliability of Regeneration-Based Replica Control Protocols," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 38, No. 12, (December 1989), pp. 1691-1702.

• Darrell D. E. Long, John L. Carroll and Kris Stewart. "The Reliability of Regeneration-Based Replica Control Protocols," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Newport Beach: IEEE, June 1989, pp. 465-473.

• John L. Carroll and Darrell D. E. Long. "The Effect of Failure and Repair Distributions on Consistency Protocols for Replicated Data Objects," Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Simulation Symposium, Tampa: IEEE, March, 1989, pp. 47-60.

• Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-François Pâris and John L. Carroll. "Reliability of Replicated Data Objects," Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computers and Communication, Phoenix: IEEE, March, 1989, pp. 402-406.

• John L. Carroll, Darrell D. E. Long and Jehan-François Pâris. "Block-Level Consistency of Replicated Files," Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Berlin: IEEE, September 1987, pp. 146-153.

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