Alan Skousen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. Alan
received an honors BS degree in Computer Science in May of 1992
and an MS degree in Computer Science in December 1994 with
research in operating systems, both from Arizona State University.
His MS Thesis "Sombrero: A Very Large Single Address Space
Distributed Operating System" proposed the basic design for an
operating system and protection hardware with the method of
protection for a single address space proposed in this research.
Alan has completed comprehensive examinations with major areas
of operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems
and networks, compilers, database systems and software
engineering. He has also studied computer graphics and artificial
intelligence. The topic of Alan's dissertation is: "Very Large
Single Address Space Distributed Operating Systems".
Alan was the Manager of Data Processing in 1977 at Microage in
Tempe Arizona where he also participated in research. He has
supported himself as a computer systems and data processing
consultant since 1980. This work has provided him with the
opportunity to become experienced in assembler languages,
telecommunications and low level system support. He was
accepted as a Motorola Consultant in 1988 and completed course
work on the Motorola CPU architectures.