Rob Shillingsburg

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In 2012 I founded Jetbolt Games, a startup building massively multiplayer online games. Prior to Jetbolt, I was the co-founder (with Alex Carobus) of Wild Shadow Studios, maker of 2012 Independent Games Festival finalist Realm of the Mad God. I was an engineer at Google in the early 2000s.

I received my Ph.D. from the computer science department at Princeton University in 2004. My thesis research concerned the design of fault tolerant cluster servers for Internet applications. My thesis advisor was Ed Felten. I did my undergraduate work in computer science at Rice University. I currently live in the Pittsburgh area.

Research reports and publications:

Design Choices in the SHRIMP System: An Empirical Study. Matthias A. Blumrich, Richard D. Alpert, Yuqun Chen, Douglas W. Clark, Stefanos N. Damianakis, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. Felten, Liviu Iftode, Kai Li, Margaret Martonosi, and Robert A. Shillner. ISCA '98.
Simplifying distributed file systems using a shared logical disk. Robert A. Shillner and Edward W. Felten. Technical Report TR-524-96, Princeton University CS Department, 1996.
Mobile network objects. Robert A. Shillner and Edward W. Felten. Technical Report TR-534-96, Princeton University CS Department, 1996.
The DeckScape web browser (video). Marc H. Brown and Robert A. Shillner. Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Companion. Also distributed as Research Report 135b, Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, 1996.
Deckscape: An experimental web browser. Marc H. Brown and Robert A. Shillner. Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web Conference, 1995. Appears in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 27(6), pp 1097-1104. Reprinted as Research Report 135a, Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, 1995.
A new paradigm for browsing the web. Marc H. Brown and Robert A. Shillner. Proceedings of the 1995 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Other work:

An introduction to client-server programming with sockets. Technical Report TR-545-97, Princeton University CS Department, 1997. Source code: client, server.
Animations of union-find algorithms.
Numud, an multiplayer network game.
Polyroids, a 2-D space combat game for SGI workstations.
Reference implementations of compiler optimizations: partial redundancy elimination, dead code elimination, cleanup. Also an optimizer correctness tester.

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