John McCall

I'm a second-year doctoral student in Computer Science at Portland State University. My professional and research interests are all over the map; I started off in the PL group, and now I'm working on databases and schedulers. If you need or want to talk to me, I sit in FAB 115D, second from the right; you can drop in most days and I'll be there.

At the moment, I'm writing a paper with Su-Hui Chiang on changepoint detection as it applies to historical wait-time prediction for batch multiprocessors.

I'm also working with the Datalab on flexible databases; we currently have a paper in submission on adding first-class annotations to the DSpace digital library using the Fab4 annotating document browser.

When I was working with Tim Sheard, I was working on the Omega language/theorem-prover, investigating the use of constraint-handling rules (CHRs) to solve Omega's first- and higher-rank typing problems.

I have some other papers and assorted writings hosted here, as well as some projects I've developed.

Before coming to Portland State, I worked for two-and-a-half years as a visualization and infrastructure developer at MAYA Viz (later Viz | General Dynamics C4 Systems) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I did my undergraduate work in Mathematics and Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, also in Pittsburgh, which is where I met my wife, Catherine Lyons. For more information, I have a CV.

I have a strange accent, so to set the record straight — I was born in southern Oregon, but moved to Virginia when I was seven, then later moved to Pittsburgh for college. I don't know whether this explains anything, but it's all I can tell you.

I do various things for fun, including cooking, running, rock-climbing, and gaming, but if you've got something else to suggest — or you'd just like to try some of these things out — I'm generally available for more.