My last three MSc students of 2012-13 concluded their MSc thesis with the public defense on December 18th and 19th.

João Martins, with a dissertation entitled “Monitoring of Transactional Memory Programs”. Final grade of 17 (over 20) points.

Joana Roque, with a dissertation entitled “Um Estudo de Performance de uma Ferramenta de Object/Relational Mapping”. Final grade of 16 (over 20) points.

Diogo Sousa, with a dissertation entitled “Preventing Atomicity Violations with Contracts”. Final grade of 19 (over 20) points.

Communication Supporting Partial Data Replication in Distributed Transactional Memory has been accepted for presentation at the Joint Euro-TM/MEDIAN Workshop on Dependable Multicore and Transactional Memory Systems (DMTM) workshop to be held in Vienna, Austria, on January 22, 2014.

Paper On the Support of Task-Parallel Algorithmic Skeletons for Multi-GPU Computing has been accepted for publication at the 29th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2014) to be held in Gyeongju, South Korea, f

Daniel Parreira has publicly defended his MSc thesis entitled Data-Centric Concurrency Control on the Java Programming Language, being awarded a classification of 18 out of 20.

Helder Martins was the first of my current MSc students (co-advised by Nuno Preguiça)  to have the public defense of his MSc dissertation entitled "Distributed Replicated Macro-Components". Final grade of 17 (over 20) points.

The MSc thesis proposals for this semester can be found at the course's official site: http://estagios.di.fct.unl.pt/public/professor/tese.php

4ª Escola de Inverno em Avaliação de Tecnologia

Date: December 2nd, 2013

Venue: Anfiteatro Biblioteca FCT-UNL, Campus Caparica

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte de Caparica