J. Eliot Moss

Eliot Moss's current research interests focus on transactions, garbage collection algorithms, language virtual machines, and chaos in computer performance. He has been on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1985, and was promoted to full professor of computer science at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) in 2007. He is the director of the Object Systems Laboratory and previously spent four years as a senior analyst/programmer at the U.S. Army War College.

Moss is also an ACM Fellow (named in 2007) and an IEEE Fellow (named in 2010). He received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1987, a University of Massachusetts Amherst Lilly Teaching Fellowship in 1991, and a UMass TEACHnology Fellowship in 2005. In fall 2009, Moss received the UMass Amherst Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity. In 2013, he was co-recipient of the Edsger J. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for his work on transactional memory.