User:MikeDunlavey
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contact: mdunlavey AT pharsight.com
Quick bio: PhD Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, '77. Thesis in machine vision done off-site at the M.I.T. A.I. lab. Taught C.S. at Boston College 80-84. Done numerous consulting assignments over the years, and helped to start-up many companies, including Bachman Information Systems. Employed for over 10 years at Pharsight Corp., doing software products for data analysis in the pharmaceutical industry.
I live in Needham, Mass., with my wife Mary. Four kids - Brian in Pittsburgh, Elizabeth Cashman in Madison, CT, Robby and Michael (adopted from Korea) still living at home.
Early on, I got interested in the intersection between formal computer science and information theory. This business of software has a lot of folklore, and I wanted to find out which parts of it had good scientific reasons, which were not well-founded, and where were the holes where new ideas could spring up. This led to my book and a number of articles.
- Dunlavey, “Performance tuning with instruction-level cost derived from call-stack sampling”, ACM SIGPLAN Notices 42, 8 (August, 2007), pp. 4-8.
- Dunlavey, "Building Better Applications: a Theory of Efficient Software Development" International Thomson Publishing ISBN 0-442-01740-5, 1994.
- Dunlavey, “Performance Tuning: Slugging It Out!”, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Vol 18, #12, November 1993, pp 18-26.
- Dunlavey, "Differential Evaluation: a Cache-based Technique for Incremental Update of Graphical Displays of Structures" Software Practice and Experience 23(8):871-893, August 1993.
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