Educational History

Ph.D. Candidate, ABD, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1989 to 1994.
Masters in Computer Science from, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1986 to 1989.
B.S., Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS), University of California Berkeley, Honors, December 1985.

Very strong CS and limited EE. Emphasis in computer architecture, parallel processing, and distributed systems. Received UC Chancellor's Scholarship.

Employment History

Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1986 to present.
Summer SEED, Hewlett-Packard , Systems Technology Division, Cupertino, CA, Summer 1988 and Summer 1989.
Technical Summer Hire, Intel Scientific Computers, Beaverton Oregon, Summer 1985.] Testing and evaluation of iPSC (hypercube). Developed a test suite.
Systems Programmer, Cygnet Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA, Summer 1983. Wrote 8088 assembly code for an communications product that attached to an IBM PC.
Formed and ran my own company, USS ENTERPRISES, Started December 1981. My product allowed an Atari to use the disks, printer, and keyboard of a computer running CP/M. I started this my senior year in High School, and ran it at least part time for the next 3 years. Infoworld reviewed my product and awarded it three marks of excellent out of four categories ("The Critical Connection unites Atari and CP/M", Sept 26 1983).
Programmer, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA, September 81 to June 82. I worked every Monday of the school year writing Fortran code to be used with ground support of space lab.
Programmer, ZILOG, Cupertino, CA, June 81 to January 1982. I worked full time during the summer of 1981 and 20 hours a week during the first semester of my senior year of High School.

Vincent Cate, "Alex: A Global Filesystem", Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on File Systems, May, 1992.
Vincent Cate and Thomas Gross, "Combining the Concepts of Compression and Caching for a Two-Level Filesystem", Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Santa Clara, CA, April 8-11, 1991, ISBN 0-89791-380-9, pages 200-211.
Vincent Cate, "Two levels of filesystem hierarchy on one disk", Research Report, Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Dept, CMU-CS-90-129.