Anita Jones received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, an MA in
English Literature from the University of Texas and a PhD in Computer
Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1973. She was an assistant
professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon until 1978, when she
became an associate professor. From 1981-87 she was vice-president and
co-founder of Tartan Laboratories. In 1988 she came to the
University of Virginia as a professor and the chair of the Computer
Science Department. In 1994 she was elected to the National Academy of
Engineering. She is now on leave from the University to serve as Director
of Defense Research and Engineering in the Department of Defense. She is
author or coauthor of 37 papers and editor of two books.
Current Research
Anita Jones' technical interests focus on the design and construction of
programmed systems. She has designed protection mechanisms and built
secure systems which make a guarantee about how information is used. She
has designed and built multiple processor operating systems in order to
experiment with both the underlying machine architectures and the
applications which execute on top. By choice, she implements realistic and
substantial systems to test out design and implementation hypotheses so as
to ensure that the systems perform functionally and in a cost-effective
way.
She has particular interest in the health and variety of scientific research in the
United States.
Publications
"Report on the NSF Workshop on Scientific Databases," A. Jones, J. French,
and J. Pfaltz, IEEE Database Engineering, to appear 1991.
"STAROS, a Multiprocessor Operating System for the Support of Task
Forces," A. Jones, R. J. Chansler, I. Durham, K. Schwan, and S. R.
Vegdahl, Seventh Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 117-127,
December 1979. Reprinted in: Distributed Computing: Concepts and
Implementations, P. L. McEntire, J. G. O'Reilly, and R. E. Larson
(editors), IEEE Press, 1984.
"Experience Using Multiprocessor Systems - A Status Report," A.
Jones and P. Schwarz, Computing Surveys 12(1), June 1980.
"Where Economic Security and National Security Intersect," Army
Research, Development and Acquisition Bulletin, July-August 1994.
"Engineering in the Fast Lane", The Bridge, volume 25 (4), Winter 1995.
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