Kim P. Kihlstrom

Kim P Kihlstrom

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Email: kimkihls@westmont.edu
Phone: 805-565-6864
Fax: 805-565-7036
Office location: Math/Computer Science building
(modular building near post office)
Administrative Assistant:
Silvia Rodarte, phone 805-565-6174

Office Hours
By appointment
Note: I will be away leading the Westmont Europe Semester program during fall semester 2008.

Specialization
Distributed systems, including intrusion tolerance, survivability, security, and fault tolerance

Education

B.S., Stanford University
M.S., Stanford University
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Honors/Awards

Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation funded grant proposal, Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) Program, $287,500, 2007-2011
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation funded grant proposal, "Survivable, Adaptive, and Scalable Distributed Systems," Cyber Trust Program, $178,050, 2005-2008
Wilkes Award, Best paper published in a volume (year) of The Computer Journal, 2004
Bruce and Adaline Bare Teacher of the Year Award, Natural and Behavioral Sciences, Westmont College, 2003-2004
Faculty Research Award, Westmont College, 2003-2004
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation funded grant proposal, Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships (CSEMS) Program, $55,000, 2002-2006

Selected Publications (* indicates Westmont student authors)

K. P. Kihlstrom, R. S. Elliott*, K. A. Marshman*, and A. C. Smith*, Intrusion-Tolerant Dissemination in Large-Scale Systems, in Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2008, to appear

K. P. Kihlstrom, J. L. Stewart*, N. T. Lounsbury*, A. J. Rogers*, and M. C. Magnuson*, Implementation and Performance Testing of a Gossip-Based Communication System, in Proceedings of the 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Cambridge, MA, November 2007, pp. 194-199

K. P. Kihlstrom, P. Narasimhan, C. Phillips*, C. Ritchey*, and B. LaBarbera*, The Architecture of the Starfish System: Mapping the Survivability Space, in Proceedings of the 15th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Marina del Rey, California, November 2003, pp. 833-843

K. P. Kihlstrom and P. Narasimhan, The Starfish System: Providing Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Tolerance for Middleware Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS) (invited for presentation), Guadalajara, Mexico, January 2003, pp. 191-199

K. P. Kihlstrom, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Byzantine Fault Detectors for Solving Consensus, The Computer Journal 46(1):16-35, 2003 (received Wilkes Award)

K. P. Kihlstrom, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, The SecureRing Group Communication System, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 4(4):371-406, November 2001