Lawrence (Larry) W. Dowdy
Lawrence (Larry) W. Dowdy
From 1978-81, Dr. Dowdy was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park. Since 1981, he has been a faculty member at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1987-88, he spent a sabbatical year at the Institut für Informatik at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. From 1995-98, he served as the Chair of the Computer Science Department. Professor Dowdy served as Vanderbilt's Dean of Students from 1998-2001. During 2002-03, he was on sabbatical (pictures) at the University of Leeds, England, in the School of Computing.
Professor Dowdy is a member of the IFIP Working Group 7.3, an international group of researchers in the area of performance measurement and modeling of computer systems. Within the past, Dr. Dowdy has served as the Chair of SIGMETRICS and has served as the senior editor of the "Performance Supplement" project, a joint project sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and the Computer Measurement Group (CMG). He has co-authored two books, P.S. to Operating Systems, and Capacity Planning and Performance Modeling, published by Prentice Hall, and has received research, teaching, and administrative awards. Professor Dowdy regularly teaches courses in the areas of operating systems and performance analysis. During the Fall'03 semester, he is teaching CS 381 (Advanced Operating Systems Principals) and CS 284 (Computer Systems Analysis).
Larry and his wife, Sharon, are proud of their children David and Erin, and of David's wife, Michelle.