Steve Revilak's Homepage

My name is Steve Revilak. Since 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 research advisor is Prof. Pat O'Neil.

• My plan
• My resume.
• My contact info.

Notebooks

• Algorithmic Aspects of Molecular Biology (cs697, Fall 2006). pdf tgz
• Logical Foundations of Computer Science (cs720, Spring 2007). pdf tgz
• Distributed and Concurrent Systems (cs697b, Fall 2007). pdf tgz
• Data Mining (cs738, Spring 2008). pdf tgz
• Topics in Algorithm Theory and Design (cs724, Spring 2009). pdf 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