Steve Revilak's Homepage

My name is Steve Revilak. As of Fall 2006 I've been a PhD candidate in the department of Computer Science at UMass Boston. My area of research is database technology, specifically, improving serializability in Snapshot Isolation. My advisor is Prof. Pat O'Neil.

• My plan
• My resume.

Notebooks

• Algorithmic Aspects of Molecular Biology (cs697, Fall 2006). tgz
• Logical Foundations of Computer Science (cs720, Spring 2007). tgz
• Distributed and Concurrent Systems (cs697b, Fall 2007). tgz
• Data Mining (cs738, Spring 2008). tgz

Fun stuff

• Pool Table, Viterbi algorithm.
• My resume.
• RGB color triplets
• CGI environment.
• Table of html entity references.

Practical Stuff

• Emacs manual, reference card, FAQ.
• VI command mode, options, reference card, FAQ.
• GDB reference card. GDB is your friend. :)
• GNU manuals on-line, and on paper.
• BSD tutorials, including some good examples of IPC and socket programming.
• Javadoc Macintosh Format Page. This is a set of JDK 1.1 javadoc that's been modified to work with the pre-MacOS X 31-character filename limitation. JDK 1.1 and Mac OS 7/8/9 aren't terribly exciting these days, but the converter was the first shell script I ever wrote.

Other Stuff

• A quick-and-dirty introduction to cvs.
• Cron in a large-scale build environment.
• 13949712720901ForOSX