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Zachary J. Oster

Graduate Student and Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University

Email: zjoster@cs.iastate.edu

My desk is in Atanasoff 116A (the middle section of the big room on the ground floor).
Look for me in the first row, by the bookshelves.
I earned the B.S. degree in Computer Science and the B.A. degree in Music (clarinet performance) from South Dakota State University in May 2007.
I am now studying toward the M.S. degree in Computer Science at Iowa State University, expecting to finish in the fall of 2009.
My advisor is Dr. Samik Basu.
I am currently a research assistant for Dr. Basu, working on applying formal methods to Web service substitutability analysis.
I previously served as a teaching assistant for Com S 103, Computer Literacy and Applications (taught online by Dr. Susan Chang).

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Links

Here's a link to my term project page for Com S 572, Principles of Artificial Intelligence:
A System for Updating Contact Info from Instant Messages

... and here is the website for my most recent work on Web service substitutability:
Extending Substitutability in Composite Services by Allowing Asynchronous Communication with Message Buffers

Here's a Web comic about life in graduate school. It's funny and, sadly, often very true:
PhD Comics

Another Web comic I like that comments on technology and romance (and often has math jokes):
XKCD

Wondering what's happening in southeastern South Dakota? If you are, then visit:
KELO-TV (Sioux Falls, SD)
(My brother's roommate is their webmaster.)