News Archive
February 2012
Visiting Researchers
We are pleased to welcome Vincenzo Bonifaci, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Leen Stougie, and Andreas Wiese, who will be visiting March 14-21.
February 2012
Visiting Researcher
We are pleased to welcome Prof. Alan Burns, from the Univ. of York, UK, who is visiting for one week.
January 2012
Visiting Researcher
We are pleased to welcome Prof. Gerhard Fohler, from TU Kaiserslautern, Germany, who will be visiting for a month.
August 2011
Cyber-Physical Systems Course
This fall, Prof. Jim Anderson is conducting a course on cyber-physical systems, a first for our department. More information on the course is available here.
August 2011
Visiting Researcher
The UNC Real-Time Systems Group welcomes PhD student Risat Pathan of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Risat will be here for four months, working with Prof. Sanjoy Baruah.
August 2011
PhD Defense
Björn Brandenburg defended his dissertation. This fall, he will be joining the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Congratulations, Björn!
February 2011
Visiting Researchers
We are pleased to welcome two visiting researchers. Starting February 8, Prof. Suriayati Chuprat, from the Univ. of Technology, Malaysia, will be visiting for a month. Starting March 1, Prof. Gerhard Fohler, from TU Kaiserslautern, Germany, will be visiting for a week.
January 2011
New LITMUSRT Release
LITMUSRT 2011.1 has been released. Among other changes, LITMUSRT has been rebased to Linux kernel version 2.6.36 and now supports the ARM CPU architecture. More information is available at the LITMUSRT website.
December 2010
Best Paper Award
Björn Brandenburg and James H. Anderson won the best student paper award for their paper entitled “Optimality Results for Multiprocessor Real-Time Locking” at the 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium in San Diego, CA. Congratulations!
October 2010
New LinSched Release by Google
Google has announced a new release of LinSched (the Linux Schedule Simulator), originally created by recent graduate John Calandrino.
August 2010
Alum Receives NSF Award
Congratulations to Nathan Fisher, an alum of UNC's real-time group, for receiving an NSF CAREER award.
May 2010
Visiting Researchers
Our good friends Joel Goossens and Vandy Berten of L'Université libre de Bruxelles will be visiting us for a couple of weeks starting May 9th. Welcome!
May 2010
Recruiting Graduate Students
UNC's real-time group is actively seeking Linux-savvy graduate students.
April 2010
Fellowships
Mac Mollison has been awarded a NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellowship. Björn Brandenburg has been awarded a UNC Dissertation Completion Research Fellowship. Jeremy Erickson received an honorable mention from NSF. We would like to thank all our funding sources for their continued support.
December 2009
Best Paper Award
Cong Liu and James H. Anderson won the best student paper award for their paper entitled “Task Scheduling with Self-Suspensions in Soft Real-Time Multiprocessor Systems” at the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium in Washington, DC. Congratulations!
October 2009
Visiting Researcher
The UNC Real-Time Systems Group welcomes Andrea Bastoni (of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata"). Andrea will collaborate on joint LITMUSRT-related work during his year-long stay with us.
September 2009
Visiting Researcher
The UNC Real-Time Systems Group welcomes Raphael Guerra (of TU Kaiserslautern). Raphael will stay for two months and collaborate on scheduling-theoretic while at UNC.
August 2009
New Students
Guruprasad Aphale and Jeremy Erickson have joined the real-time systems group.
July 2009
ECRTS 2010
Prof. Jim Anderson serves as the Program Chair for the 22nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2010). Call for papers.
July 2009
Workshop on Multicore Scheduling
Prof. Sanjoy Baruah is co-organizing the workshop Real-time systems on multicore platforms: Theory and Practice. The workshop, which is part of ICPP 2009, will be held in Vienna on September 22.
July 2009
Dagstuhl Seminar on Scheduling
Prof. Sanjoy Baruah is co-organizing the the Dagstuhl Seminar on Scheduling. The seminar will be held in February 2010.
June 2009
New Students
Mac Mollison and Glenn Elliott have joined the real-time systems group.