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Name: Toby S Berk, Professor Emeritus
Office Info: N/A, 305-348-2744
E-mail: berktcis.fiu.edu
Homepage: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~berkt
Office Hours: N/A

Research Interests
  • Operating systems,
  • Computer graphics,
  • Computer science education
Background Education
1972 - Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University
1968 - M.S., Computer Science, Purdue University
1965 - D.SE., Engineering Mathematics, University of Michigan


Professional Experience
2002 -
  In Phased Retirement
1987 - present
  Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1996 - 1997
  Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado
1987 - 1992
  Associate Director, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1992 - 2002
  Undergraduate Program Director, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1989 - 1990
  Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado
1986 - 1987
  Acting Director, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1981 - 1985
  Chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1980 - 1981
  Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University
1975 - 1986
  Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1972 - 1975
  Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199
1970 - 1972
  Instructor, Computer Science, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
1969 - 1970
  NDEA Fellow, Purdue University
1966 - 1969
  Graduate Teaching Assistant, Purdue University
1968 - 1969
  Project Upward Bound teacher, Purdue University


Selected Publications
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  1. "Dynamically Negotiated Resource Management for Data Intensive Application Suites" Gary Nutt, Scott Brandt, Adam Griff, Sam Siewert, Toby Berk, Marty Humphrey. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 12 (January 2000), pages78-95.

  2. "A Dynamic Quality of Service Middleware Agent for Mediating Application Resource Usage" , Scott Brandt, Gary Nutt, Toby Berk, James Mankovich. 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS98), Madrid, Spain, December 2-4, 1998.

  3. "Soft Real-Time Application Execution with Dynamic Quality of Service Assurance" , Scott Brandt, Gary Nutt, Toby Berk, Marty Humphrey.   Sixth IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service Assurance ,   May, 1998.

  4. "The DQM Architecture: Middleware for Application-centered QoS Resource Management" , Marty Humphrey, Toby Berk, Scott Brandt, Gary Nutt.   Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Middleware for Distributed Real-Time Systems and Services , December, 1997.

  5. "Resource Management for a Virtual PlanningRoom" , Gary Nutt, Toby Berk, Scott Brandt, Marty Humphrey, Sam Siewert. Proceedings the Third International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (IWMIS 97), 1997.

  6. "A Simple Student Environment for Lightweight Process Concurrent Programming under SunOs". Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium (SIGCSE '96), 1996.