Chris Frost

chris@frostnet.net

I'm a fifth year computer science graduate student at UCLA, researching systems and programming languages in TERTL.

Projects and software

Fresh

Featherstitch. A new approach to representing file system changes and a more modular file system architecture. (Also, a fun reason to play with large graphs in your operating system kernel.)

scord. Reduces the disk space used by a subversion working copy with large and/or many files.
mswatch. Keeps two mailboxes synchronized more efficiently and with shorter delays than periodically synchronizing the two mailboxes over IMAP.

Dormant

JPred. Practical (modular and typesafe) predicate dispatch in Java.

Windows CE UPnP Audio/Video Framework. C++ framework for creating devices that implement the Universal Plug and Play Audio/Video Device Control Protocol (UPnP AV DCP).
Newton site. (As in, 1997.)

Publications

Generalized File System Dependencies. Christopher Frost, Mike Mammarella, Eddie Kohler, Andrew de los Reyes, Shant Hovsepian, Andrew Matsuoka, and Lei Zhang. SOSP 2007, October 2007. (Audience choice awardee.) [PDF, Project]
Expressive and Modular Predicate Dispatch for Java. Todd Millstein, Christopher Frost, Jason Ryder, and Alessandro Warth. TOPLAS, to appear. [PDF, Project]
Modularly Typesafe Interface Dispatch in JPred. Christopher Frost and Todd Millstein. FOOL/WOOD 2006, January 2006. [PDF, Project]

(All)

Links to the OSDI 2008 papers.

Chris

I'm a fifth year computer science graduate student at UCLA, researching systems and programming languages in TERTL. I'm also a member of the LUG and the ACM, and TAed CS 111 (undergrad operating systems) for 2005–2006.

Outside of the lab, I enjoy running, biking, hiking, and backpacking; photography; and spouts of reading.

My undergrad days were at UVa, where I frolicked and schemed with friends in Theta Tau, ACM, Math Club, Brown, Honor, and the computer science and math departments. I've helped attack computer science problems while at UCLA, UVa, MIT, Microsoft Research, Google, Appian, Microsoft, Dynetics, and the US Army AMRDEC. Home is Huntsville, Alabama.