Trek Palmer Architecture and Language Implementation Lab 354 Computer Science Building University of Massachusetts Amherst MA, 01003
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Who am I?

My name is Trek Palmer, and I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Research

Currently I am working on the CoGenT project to automatically generate compiler back-end components from machine descriptions. My most recent work has been in automatically generating code generators from machine descriptions.

Publications

• CISL: A Class-based Machine Description Language for Co-generation of Compilers and Simulators
  J. Eliot B. Moss, Trek Palmer, Timothy Richards, Edward K. Walters II, Charles C. Weems
  Int'l Journal of Parallel Programming}, Volume 33, Numbers 2-3, pages 231-246, June, 2005, Springer-Verlag
• CMDL: A Class-Based Machine Description Language for Co-generation of Compilers and Simulators
  J. Eliot B. Moss, Trek Palmer, Timothy Richards, Edward K. Walters II, Charles C. Weems, 2004
  IPDPS Next Generation Software Program - NSFNGS - PI Workshop 2004
• CoGenT Language Manual
  Trek Palmer, Timothy Richards, Edward K. Walters II, 2004
• Randomized instruction set emulation to disrupt binary code injection attacks
  Gabriela Barrantes, David H. Ackley, Trek S. Palmer, Dino Dai Zovi, Stephanie Forrest, Darko Stefanovic, 2003
  Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Computer and Communication Security
• Design and Implementation of SIND, a Dynamic Binary Translator
  Trek Palmer, 2003
  Master's Thesis and UNM CS Tech Report TR-CS-2003-38
• Randomized instruction set emulation to disrupt binary code injection attacks
  Gabriela Barrantes, David H. Ackley, Trek S. Palmer, Dino Dai Zovi, Stephanie Forrest, Darko Stefanovic, 2003
  UNM CS Tech Report TR-CS-2003-10
• Experiences Constructing a Lightweight SPARC Interpreter for a Dynamic Binary Translator
  Trek Palmer and Darko Stefanovic, 2003
  UNM CS Tech Report TR-CS-2003-12
• SIND: A Framework for Binary Translation
  Trek Palmer, Dino Dai Zovi, and Darko Stefanovic, 2001
  UNM CS Tech Report TR-CS-2001-38
• Anonymous Cloud Routing
  Dino Dai Zovi and Trek Palmer, 2000
  Independent Study
• Introduction to Neural Network Analysis Using JETNET
  Fermilab Internal Note, 1999

Teaching

• In Fall of 2008, I'll be teaching CSC 262 (Operating Systems) at Smith college.
• In Spring of 2005, I taught cs201 at UMass. I had a blast!
• In Spring of 2004 I TA'ed for CmpSci 377 at UMass. My duties included regular discussion lectures, assistance in the Ed lab, and writing homework assignments.

Software

• Rolecks: Rolecks is a java-based ARM simulation/debugging system. Tim Richards and I wrote it as a replacement for the windows-only ARMulator system. I used it when I taught cs201, and despite its many bugs and shortcomings, the students were able to use it to implement 4 large programming projects. Rolecks source is available upon request.
• CoGenT Tools In the course of my research on the cogent project, I have helped author many of the tools used by the CoGenT system.