Jeff Parker B.A, Kenyon College M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Middlebury College jeffp at middlebury.edu
Photo by Jeff Pike. Copyright © 2003 The President and Fellows of Harvard University

I'll be presenting at the following conferences this summer

• TARGUT Graphics Workshop
• Bioinformatics in the Undergraduate Curriculum

• Bioinformatics Algorithms
• Software Design
• Chips, Bits, and the Web
• C for Scientists
• Data Structures
• Operating Systems
• Computer Networks
• LEGO Robots

10 - 11 AM

Monday, Wednesday, Friday

My father was an American diplomat, and I grew up abroad.

I got a BA from Kenyon College, and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin. After graduation, I taught at Williams College, Amherst College, and Boston College. I spent the next 15 years working in industry, and the last decade of that working for a sequence of startup companies around Boston. It was an exhilarating period, but I am happy to be teaching full time again.

I worked for Phoenix Technologies, Prime Computer, Sun Microsystems, Agile Networks, Nexabit Networks, Lucent Technologies, and Axiowave Networks. I helped design and implement a number of networking devices, including an intelligent switch and two high speed routers. Throughout this period, I taught a course every semester at the Extension School at Harvard University.

I have two daughters: Laila and Andrea, a graduate of University of Chicago now living in Oakland. My wife is a Math Coach, working with teachers to help change mathematics education.

• J. Parker, Management Information Base for IS-IS, April 2006
• J. Parker, Recommendations for Interoperable IP Networks using IS-IS, May 2004
• J. Parker, Recommendations for Interoperable Networks using IS-IS, February 2004
• R. Balay, D. Katz, and J. Parker, IS-IS Mesh Groups, October 2000.
• J. Parker, "Automated System Administration in Solaris", Proceedings, System Adminitration, Networking, and Security Conference, April 1993.
• J. Parker, "Introducting Objects into the Curriculum", Computing Strategies Across the Curriculum, 1992, University of Vermont, pp. 147-156.
• J. Parker, "A Comparison of Network Name Servers", Prime Users Group Conference, (NPUG) 1990, Network and Communications, pp 18-27.
• J. Parker, "Synchronization of Network Protocols", Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1990.
• J. Parker, D. Velleman, "Counting Binary Trees", Mathematics and Computer Education, pages 22-29.
• J. Parker, R. Cupper, C. Kelemen, D. Molnar, G. Scragg "Laboratories in the Computer Science Curriculum", Computer Science Education, 1, 1990, pp. 205-221.
• J. Parker, G. M. Schneider, "Problems with and proposals for Service Courses in Computer Science", SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol 19, No. 1, Februry 1987
• J. Parker, T. Blumer "Testing of Estelle Protocols via Automatic Implementation", BC Tech Report BCCS-05, 1990, pp. 1-13.
• J. Parker, "Finding Livelock in Network Protocols", BC Tech Report BCCS-90-04, 1990
• J. Parker, "Conway's Parallel Sorter", BC Tech Report BCCS-03, 1990, pp 1-16.
• J. Parker, "A Concurrent Search Structure", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems, 7, 2, 1989, pp. 570--582.
• J. Parker, U. Manber, "The Sibling Trie: A Highly Concurrent Search Structure", Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 1986, pp. 1064-1072.
• J. Parker, "The Period of the Fibonacci Random Number Generator", Discrete Mathematics, 20, 1988, pp. 256-278.
• J. Parker, T. Blumer "Verification of the 802.2 LLC Level", IEEE 802.2 Working Group Meeting, 1987.
• P. Melvin, J. Parker, "4-Manifolds with Large Symmetry Groups", Topology, vol 25, N0 1, pp. 71-83, 1986
• J. Parker, "4-Dimensional G-Manifolds with 3-Dimensional Orbits", Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 125, 1, 1986, pp. 187-204.

My current project is writing a text discussing the analysis of Networking Protocols.

I am active in the IS-IS Workgroup of the IETF. IS-IS is a routing protocol that is used to direct traffic inside large Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Calculus Sequence	Kenyon College, University of Wisconsin, Williams College
Introduction to Programming	University of Wisconsin, Williams College, Amherst College, Boston College
Data Structures	Williams College, Amherst College, Boston College, Harvard University
Algorithms	Williams College
Operating Systems	Williams College, Harvard University
Programming Languages	Boston College, Harvard University
Smalltalk	Boston College
Analyzing Network Protocols	Harvard University

I have been using an HTML system call S5 to present "slides" in class. This allows students to view the original with any browser. To simplify the production of HTML slides, I have developed a small filter to transform text into the format S5 expects. This S5 presentation gives some background on the tool.

642 Bicentennial Hall
Department of Computer Science
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont 05753

jeffp at middlebury.edu
Tel: (802) 443-5502
Fax: (802) 443-2072

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Photo by Jeff Pike. Copyright © 2003 The President and Fellows of Harvard University