Technical Reports

TP is TP Heavy: In High Performance Transaction Processing Systems Proceedings, 1993. Asilomar, CA. Also available as Middleware Spectra, Volume 7, Report 4, November 1993.

Uniting File Systems, Unix Review 7(3), March 1989. (Alfred Z. Spector, Michael L. Kazar)

A Camelot Perspective. Unix Review 7(1):48-67, January 1989. (Jeffrey L. Eppinger Alfred Z. Spector)

Support for Interprocess Communication on Heterogeneous Computers, Carnegie Mellon Report CMU-CS-89-xyz. (Toshihiko Kato, Dean S. Thompson and Alfred Z. Spector) (To appear.)

Strongbox: A Self-Securing Protection Systems for Distributed Programs, (Bennett S. Yee, J. D. Tygar, Alfred Z. Spector), Carnegie Mellon Report CMU-CS-87-184. Presented at the Unix Security Workshop, September 1988, Oregon.

Camelot: A Flexible and Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing Facility for Mach and the Internet - A Status Report (Alfred Z. Spector, Dean Thompson, Randy F. Pausch, Jeffrey L. Eppinger, Dan Duchamp, Richard Draves, Dean S. Daniels, Joshua J. Bloch). Carnegie Mellon Report CMU-CS-87-129.

High Performance Distributed Transaction Processing in a General Purpose Computing Environment. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems, Asilomar, September 1987. (Alfred Z. Spector, Dean S. Daniels, Jeffrey L. Eppinger, Joshua Bloch, Richard Draves, Dan Duchamp, Dean S. Thompson)

An Efficient Common Lisp for the IBM RT PC. In Proceedings of the 1987 Academic Information Systems University AEP Conference, pages xx-yy, June 1987. Also available as Carnegie Mellon Report CMU-CS-87-134. (David McDonald, Scott Fahlman, Alfred Spector).

The Camelot Interface Specification: Release 0, Working Draft, March 2, 1987. Camelot Working Memo 2, Carnegie Mellon University. (Alfred Z. Spector, Richard P. Draves, Dean S. Daniels. Dan Duchamp, Jeffrey L. Eppinger, Sherri G. Menees, Dean S. Thompson).

The Camelot Project. Database Engineering 9(3):23-34,September 1986. Also available as Technical Report CMU-CS-86-166, Carnegie Mellon University, November 1986. (Alfred Z. Spector, Joshua J. Bloch, Dean S. Daniels, Richard P. Draves, Dan Duchamp, Jeffrey L.
Eppinger, Sherri G. Menees, Dean S. Thompson).

Measuring Time in CM*. Technical Report CMU-CS-86-136, Carnegie Mellon University, May 1986. (Thomas H. Kong, Alfred Z. Spector, Daniel P. Siewiorek)

Virtual Memory Management for Recoverable Objects in the TABS Prototype. Technical Report CMU-CS-85-163, Carnegie Mellon University, December 1985. (Jeffrey L. Eppinger, Alfred Z. Spector).

Performance Evaluation of Distributed Transaction Facilities. Proceedings of the the Workshop on High Performance Transaction Processing, Asilomar, September 1985. (Alfred Z. Spector, Dean S. Daniels)

The TABS Project. Database Engineering 8(2):19-25, June 1985.

Proposal for an Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum for the 1980's, Technical Report CMU-CS-83-156, Carnegie Mellon University, October 1983. (Mary Shaw, Steve Brookes, Marc Donner, James Driscoll, Michael Mauldin, Randy Pausch, Bill Scherlis, Alfred Spector).

Transactions: A Construct for Reliable Distributed Computing. Operating Systems Review 17(2):18-35, April 1983. Also available as Technical Report CMU-CS-82-143, Carnegie-Mellon University, January 1983. (Alfred Z. Spector, Peter M. Schwarz)

(Multiprocessing Architectures for Local Computer Networks.) Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, 1981. Available as Stanford Report STAN-CS-81-874.

On Enhancing Local Network Communication Devices, Proceedings of the IFIP WG 6.4 International Workshop on Local-Area Computer Networks, Zurich, Switzerland, August 1980. Co-authored with Dean Daniels and Sten Andler. ALSO available as IBM San Jose Research Laboratory Report RJ3094 (38310), April 1981.

The Efficiency Enhancement of PPL, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Technical Report TR-17-76, Center for Research in Computing Technology Report, Harvard College, June 1976.

Interviews

Transaction Processing, Paving the Way for Expansion, DB2 Magazine, Winter 1997, Interviewed by David Stoddard, http://www.db2mag.com/db_area/archives/1997/q4/97wiIntr.shtml

Published Notes

Interim Report on the SOSP-11 Program, (Operating Systems Review) 21(2):8,
April 1987.

Hardware Advances and Progress in Computer Applications, (Hertz Foundation
Newsletter), p. 3, September 1987.