Dave Thaler
Software Architect
Research Activities
Invited Keynote Talks
- “Why do we really want an ID/locator split anyway?”, MobiArch 2008 (opens in new tab).
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Michigan (opens in new tab), January 1998.
- M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Michigan (opens in new tab).
- B.S. in Computer Science at Michigan State University (opens in new tab), August 1992.
Other Activities
I participate in the Microsoft PuzzleHunt (opens in new tab) and related activities. My team (SCRuBBers) won PuzzleHunt IV in 2001 and PuzzleHunt 123 in 2009, and ran PuzzleHunt V in 2002 and PuzzleHunt 11.0 in 2007. A related activity is Microsoft Puzzle Safari (opens in new tab), where my team (The Brute Squad) has consistently placed in the top three, and won Puzzle Safaris 3, 6-9, and 12.
In a past life, I participated in the ACM Programming Contest, first as a participant where my team (Michigan State University, consisting of myself, Jay Lorch (opens in new tab), and Steve Klocek) took 2nd in the world in 1992 (opens in new tab), and then as the coach (opens in new tab) for the University of Michigan team, which also went to the international level in 1997.
In my spare time, I do genealogy and maintain a web site (opens in new tab) of a number of royal lines.