Bob Burger

I love to use computers and mathematics to help people solve complex technical problems with simple, robust software that customers don’t think about because it works so well. I use paradigms best suited to the problems and domain-specific language embeddings in Scheme to provide simple, efficient solutions. I have written industry-leading software that plans and schedules laboratory automation equipment and controls an automated liquid handler. I have developed medical device software using fault isolation and message-passing concurrency to mitigate the risks of lock-ups and memory corruption of the typical shared memory approach. I have extensive experience in multi-paradigm programming, applied mathematics, writing design documentation, making technical presentations, teaching one-on-one and in small groups, and interviewing software engineers. Please contact me at my last name + rg@gmail.com with opportunities in the Indianapolis area.

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.