Bob Burger

5426 N. Meadow Dr.
Indianapolis, IN 46268-4033
317-329-2962
my last name + rg@gmail.com

Thanksgiving 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, Christmas 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992

Employment

Beckman Coulter, Inc.
7451 Winton Dr.
Indianapolis, IN 46268-5103
317-808-4204

I am a staff software development engineer in the instrument systems development center of Beckman Coulter, Inc., a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests and supplies that simplify and automate laboratory processes spanning the continuum from pioneering medical research and clinical trials to laboratory diagnostics and point-of-care testing.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University Computer Science Department, March 1997
• M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University, January 1994
• B.S. Double-Major in Computer Science and Mathematics plus a German Technical Translator's Certificate from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, February 1991

Publications

• Robert G. Burger and R. Kent Dybvig. An Infrastructure for Profile-Driven Dynamic Recompilation. In Proceedings of ICCL'98, the IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computer Languages, May 1998.
• Robert G. Burger. Efficient Compilation and Profile-Driven Dynamic Recompilation in Scheme. PhD thesis, Indiana University Computer Science Department, March 1997. Defense presentation
• Robert G. Burger and R. Kent Dybvig. Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '96 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pages 108-116, May 1996. Sample code. See also William Clinger's paper “How to Read Floating Point Numbers Accurately” and the Netlib fp library including David Gay's ANSI C code for decimal-to-binary and binary-to-decimal conversions.
• Robert G. Burger, Oscar Waddell, and R. Kent Dybvig. Register Allocation using Lazy Saves, Eager Restores, and Greedy Shuffling. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '95 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pages 130-138, June 1995.
• M. Esen Tuna, Steven D. Johnson, and Robert G. Burger. Continuations in Hardware-Software Codesign. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design, IEEE, pages 264-269, October 1994.
• Robert G. Burger. The Scheme Machine. Technical Report 413, Indiana University, Computer Science Department, August 1994.