Gernot Heiser

Professor of Operating Systems
School of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Sydney, Australia

and

Leader of ERTOS, the
Embedded, Real-Time and Operating Systems Program
at National ICT Australia (NICTA)

and

Founder and CTO of Open Kernel Labs (OKL), the leader in high-performance protected operating systems and virtualisation technology for embedded systems.

These days I am dividing my time between OKL and NICTA. In my spare time I supervise a number of PhD and undergraduate students, and teach Advanced Operating Systems to a group of excellent students with a tendency to masochism.

I am also leading the Gelato@UNSW project, which works on improving performance and scalability of Linux on Itanium. Gelato@UNSW is part of the worldwide Gelato.org Federation. The project is generously supported by HP Company and the Australian Research Council (ARC) and collaborates closely with many Gelato members.

These days putting all sorts of irrelevant trivia into a blog is de rigeur. There you go...

Check here for:

red ball Official stuff on my automatically maintained Information Page (which is usually out-of-date).

curriculum vitae

my OS publications are on my NICTA page

teaching

My thoughts about systems research and teaching in Australia:
A presentation for a panel at ACSAC-02 on where have all the systems students gone?

red ball students, staff and associates

other affiliations

student projects (theses and others)

my thesis/paper style guide for students

other interests

contact information (incl PGP key)

red
ball UNSW's John Lions Chair Appeal has raised enough funds to create the chair. Fundraising is continuing to endow it in perpetuity.

red ball What I did in my last holidays: Larapinta Trail (Sep 2004), Jatbula Trail (New Year 2006), Munda Biddi Trail (Dec 2006)

Macnamara Fallacy:

The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is ok as far as it goes.
The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading.
The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness.
The forth step is to say that what can't be measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

Last modified 2008-03-20, last validated 2007-01-28

	Official stuff on my automatically maintained Information Page (which is usually out-of-date).
	curriculum vitae
	my OS publications are on my NICTA page
	teaching
	My thoughts about systems research and teaching in Australia: A presentation for a panel at ACSAC-02 on where have all the systems students gone?
	students, staff and associates
	other affiliations
	student projects (theses and others)
	my thesis/paper style guide for students
	other interests
	contact information (incl PGP key)
	UNSW's John Lions Chair Appeal has raised enough funds to create the chair. Fundraising is continuing to endow it in perpetuity.
	What I did in my last holidays: Larapinta Trail (Sep 2004), Jatbula Trail (New Year 2006), Munda Biddi Trail (Dec 2006)