Phillip Stanley-Marbell
About
I am now with the Core OS organisation at Apple, Inc. Prior to October 2012,I was a research scientist at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory. My research
focuses on computing architectures for future device technologies,
which I investigate from both the theory and hardware ends; I build systems.
I joined IBM's Zurich Research Lab as a research staff member in 2008.
Prior to that, I was a post-doctoral researcher at TU Eindhoven, in the
Netherlands (until 2008), having completed a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon
University in May 2007. More details can be found in my curriculum vitae.
Research Publications/Talks
Research Artifacts (things I've built)
I maintain a few open/free hardware and software systems and tools:- Sunflower Simulator — an instruction-level emulator for embedded multiprocessors.
- Sunflower Hardware — a group of related embedded hardware designs.
- Model Catalog — a catalog of networked computing system models.
- ISSCC database and visualization — an interactive database of semiconductor device properties that I curate.
- Stanford CPUdb visualization — an interactive visualization of the Stanford CPUdb database.
Miscellaneous Technical
Hardware
- Old pictures of various early revisions of the Sunflower hardware platform here
Mathematica Packages
- BS — BitScope.
(Plot and analyze data from the BitScope USB oscilloscope)
- KN — Kautz Networks.
(Some routines relating to K(2,3) graphs)
- VA — Value Distribution Analysis.
(Extract compact distributions from large data sets) - FA — Factor Analysis.
(Extract covariance matrix from large tables of values)
PROMELA/Spin Models
- BN — simple beam-forming network.
- LC — Limbo channel example from the IPWL book.
- SM — control path of a speculative multi-threading processor.
- SR — software-defined radio.
Miscellaneous Software
- Here's a page with various other pieces of software i've written in the last 15+ years.
Datasets
- Sunlight measurement: 04/28/06/Pittsburgh,
05/09/06/Pittsburgh, Mathematica notebook
(uses functions from BS package)
Miscellaneous Personal
Random
- Work-life integration: SSMB Parallelism.
Textbooks
Inferno Programming with Limbo, (published about a decade ago).(Inferno is an operating system developed by the Unix group at Bell-labs, in the late nineties. Limbo is a concurrent programming language, in which Inferno applications are developed.)
- Publisher (John Wiley & Sons)'s listing for the book.
- Amazon.com listing and Amazon.com author page.
- The book's official web page.
- U.S. Library of Congress Cataloging Data can be found here.
- I designed and taught a StuCo course at CMU,
Concurrent and Distributed Programming with Inferno and Limbo, based on the book, in spring of 2004.
Partly-successful attempts at recreation
- I'm an adult-beginner cellist. (I'm looking for people to play with in Zurich.)
- My personal web page can be found here.
- Some pictures can be found here.
- I occasionally put pictures of my bookshelf here and here.
- Sometimes when I listen to music, I listen to these.
- When I used to dabble in composing computer-generated music, I used tools like these.
