I am now an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Please see my new homepage. Or see some older material below. While at UW, my Ph.D. advisors were Oren Etzioni and Alon Halevy.

Research

Mangrove and Semantic Email: Making the Semantic Web Real

• NEW: Meaning for the Masses: Theory and Applications for Semantic Web and Semantic Email Systems. Luke McDowell. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Washington, August 2004.
• NEW: Semantic Email: Theory and Applications Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, and Alon Halevy. To appear, Journal of Web Semantics, 2004.
• The Specification of Agent Behavior by Ordinary People: A Case Study. Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, and Alon Halevy. To appear, Third International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004), November 2004. (48/205 papers accepted = 23.4%)
• Semantic Email. Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy, and Henry Levy. Thirteen International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), May 2004. (74/506 papers accepted = 14.6%)
• Mangrove: Enticing Ordinary People onto the Semantic Web via Instant Gratification. Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Steven Gribble, Alon Halevy, Henry Levy, William Pentney, Deepak Verma, and Stani Vlasseva. Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), October 2003. (49/262 papers accepted = 18.7%)
• Semantic Email: Adding Lightweight Data Manipulation Capabilities to the Email Habitat. Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy, Henry Levy, and Luke McDowell. Sixth International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2003), June 2003. (17/67 papers accepted = 25.4%)
• Evolving the Semantic Web with Mangrove. Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Steven Gribble, Alon Halevy, Hank Levy, William Pentney, Deepak Verma, Stani Vlasseva (UW Tech Report February 2003).
• Crossing the Structure Chasm. Alon Halevy, Oren Etzioni, AnHai Doan, Zachary Ives, Jayant Madhavan, Luke McDowell, Igor Tatarinov. First Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2003), Jan 2003.
• An Evolutionary Approach to the Semantic Web (ISWC 2002, poster)

Computer Architecture

• Improving Server Software Support for Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors. Luke McDowell, Susan Eggers, Steven Gribble. ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 03), June 2003.
• An Evaluation of Speculative Instruction Execution on Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors. Steve Swanson, Luke McDowell, Michael Swift, Susan Eggers, Henry Levy. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 21(3): 314-340 (2003).

Diversions

• Pinball!

• I enjoy running, squash, and croquet, but none as often as I would like.

• PPoPP practice talk (Calendar entry)
  May 19 2003
  11:30 a.m.
  Sieg 322

• The "YES we have **MILK**!" TGIF (Calendar entry)
  17 January 2003
  4:30 p.m.
  Outside Sieg 322

My hobbies...

Family connections...

Check out my brother-in-law's construction management company -- CKO Construction. Or Christianity.com where my sister-in-law works.