News

• I'm back from my sabbatical at EPFL. It was fantastic.
• Sean Tozer has completed his degree requirements. Congrats Sean!!
• Our paper has been accepted to ICDE 2010. ``Q-Cop: Avoiding Bad Query Mixes to Minimize Client Timeouts Under Heavy Loads'', Sean Tozer, Tim Brecht and Ashraf Aboulnaga. (I'll post the camera ready version to my publications page once it is ready).

• B.Sc.   Saskatchewan   (1983),     M.Math.   Waterloo   (1985),     Ph.D.   Toronto   (1994).

Professional Activites

• Research Interests: Performance Evaluation;   High-Performance Internet Systems, Services and Applications;   Parallel and Distributed Computation;   Operating Systems; Wireless and Opportunistic Networking.
• Publications
• Student Theses

• The userver
  • The userver web page.
  • The userver mailing list.
  • The userver source code.
• Gelato (Linux on Itanium)
  
  
• My Erdos number is 2 :-) Charlie Colbourn -> Paul Erdos
• Citations found by CiteSeer
• Citations found by Google Scholar

• Student's Theses
• Current Graduate students
• Former Graduate students
• Undergraduate Supervision
• Hints for students writing a Thesis
• Other Useful Links for Grad Students

Current Teaching at UW (2009-2010)

Fall:

• CS 856: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems: Systems Software for Multicore Environments (SSME)
  The time of this class has changed to 10:00 - 12:20.

Winter:

• Two sections of CS 350 (Operating Systems)

Previous Teaching at EPFL (2008-2009)

• CS-702 Advanced Topics in Operating Systems 10:15-12:00 BC129

Recent Teaching

• CS350: Operating Systems (Fall: Sept-Dec 2007)
  MC 2038 T/Th 1:00-2:20.
• CS456: Computer Networks (Winter: Jan-May 2008) CS497: Multidisiplinary Studies in Computer Science (Winter: Jan-April 2007)
  • Course web page not available yet
  • Web page for my portion of the course
• CS350: Operating Systems (Winter: Jan-April 2007)
• CS856: Topics in Internet Services and Performance (Winter 2007)
  • First class: Friday Jan 5 1-3 DC3540
    (This is a real class - not an organizational class)
  • Subsequent classes: Fridays 1:15 - 4:00 pm in DC3540 Starting Jan 12.
• CS856: High-Performance Internet Servers (Spring: May-Aug 2006)
• CS133: Developing Programming Principles (Fall 2004)
• CS350: Operating Systems (Winter: 2004, 2006)
• CS856: Internet Server Performance (Fall 2003)
• Older Courses

Other Tim Brechts

• This is my cousin Tim.
• This is my other cousin Tim.
• And This is my other cousin Tim.
• And this is yet another cousin Tim.
• This is my great Uncle Bert.
  Bio
  International Brecht Society