I'm an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, College Park. I'm majoring in computer science and psychology, and plan on getting degrees in both of them.

I work in the PLUM group, on dynamic software updating.

Publications

• Evaluating Dynamic Software Update Safety Using Systematic Testing. Christopher M. Hayden, Edward K. Smith, Eric A. Hardisty, Michael Hicks, Jeffrey S. Foster. Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE11).
• State Transfer for Clear and Efficient Runtime Updates. Christopher M. Hayden, Edward K. Smith, Michael Hicks, Jeffrey S. Foster. Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp'11).
• Towards Standardized Benchmarks for Dynamic Software Updating Systems. Edward K. Smith, Michael Hicks, and Jeffrey S. Foster. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp), June 2012.

Contact

• My email address is tedks@cs.umd.edu. If you email me, the best way to avoid getting caught in a spam filter is to encrypt your message using my OpenPGP public key.
• I'm typically reachable on XMPP at the address teddks@jabber.no. My OTR fingerprint is 6386A995 E28EB5ED CDAE1FBA 904EC30D 8DD1E937.

I don't use non-free network services, like Twitter, or Facebook. You can find me on the following free social web systems:

• I'm reachable on the OStatus network as @tedks@identi.ca.
• My Diaspora name is tedks@joindiaspora.com.

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