Ah! You're staring at my fingers! These fingers spell out the Lesson of Life! Shall I tell you the story of Right-Hand-Left-Hand -- the tale of Eval and Apply?
Chris Jones
Hello. I'm a final-semester undergraduate at UC Berkeley, majoring in EECS. I'm also the father of web 2.0.
Research
I'm working with Ras Bodik (my advisor) under the auspices of the Par Lab on creating a parallel web browser for multi-core architectures. We're targeting handheld devices (like the iPhone) where many low-frequency cores provide more instructions per Watt than a single, high-frequency one. To avoid Amdahl's law, we're parallelizing:
- Lexing and parsing
- Page layout and rendering
- Script execution
Projects
- Parallel lexing/parsing
- PLY hacking (Python lex/yacc)
- Berkeley undergraduate compiler course
Publications
None yet; forthcoming (hopefully).
Presentations
- Browsing Web 3.0 on 3.0 Watts: Why browsers will be parallel. At Berkeley Open Source Quality Group. September 2007. With Ras Bodik.
- Browsing Web 3.0 on 3.0 Watts: Why browsers will be parallel. At Intel Research. August 2007. With Ras Bodik.
Preoccupations
Outside of CS, I'm interested in brain-machine interfaces, philosophy of the mind, evolutionary biology, films, singing (especialy from the Great American Songbook), music, books, beer, photography, atheism, and other things.