Undergraduate student Colin Gordon was recently selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition for 2008.

Colin's research was on a form of consistent, transactional updates in a modeling formalism called Abstract State Machines. The work resulted in a paper published at the ASM 2007 workshop. The paper was co-authored with two other Brown undergrads, Leo Meyerovich (who won a CRA Honorable Mention last year) and Joel Weinberger, and their professor, Shriram Krishnamurthi. Colin has also done research on dynamic contention management for software transactional memory with Maurice Herlihy.

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