Stefan Marr

Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer)
and Royal Society Industry Fellow

Stefan Marr I am working at the School of Computing at the University of Kent. My work focuses on programming language implementation techniques, complex concurrent systems, and tooling.

Much of work revolves around making interpreters faster, detecting and preventing concurrency bugs at run time, and use modern language runtime systems to provide programmers with better tooling.

For contact details see my page at the School of Computing.

Archive of posts with the tag locks

Dec 7, 2010: The Price of the Free Lunch: Programming in the Multicore Era

Last Friday was the annual Lab event of our Software Languages Lab. Like last year, many people related to the lab in one or the other way came to get an overview of what the current topics of our research are.
Feb 7, 2010: Virtual Machine Support for Many-Core Architectures: Decoupling Abstract from Concrete Concurrency Models

Finally, my first workshop paper got published, which was a little odyssey with some misunderstandings, but anyway, now it is out. It is just a position paper, thus, do not expect to many insights. However, what it describes is my big plan, and hopefully the story of my PhD. Am working on it…
Aug 3, 2009: Theory and Practice of Language Implementation, part 2

The second part of the summer school was a bit more applied and more in the direction of my own interests. Chandra Krintz talked about managed runtime environments. Yannis Smaragdakis introduced multi-threaded programming and transactional memory. Sumit Gulwani as the third lecturer taught us symbolic bounds computation.