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\address {\vspace{0.2in}\\Dr.\ David Bryan Carpenter \\
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center \\
111 College Place \\
Syracuse University \\
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 \\
Phone: (315) 443-5068 \\
FAX  : (315) 443-1973 \\
email: dbc@npac.syr.edu
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\begin{letter}{\bf Recommendation for Saleh Elmohamed}

\opening{Dear Colleague,}

I met Saleh Elmohamed four years ago when I joined Northeast Parallel
Architecture Center as a research scientist and project leader.  In the
intervening time I have had frequent contact with Saleh, and had the
pleasure of working with him on many occasions.  He has had many
productive interactions with my research group.  

The activities of my group are focussed on development of libraries,
compilers, and other system software for parallel computing, especially
using Java.  Saleh has put together interesting and useful Java
applications and applets, and helped to parallelize them using our {\em
HPJava} software.  Saleh was also involved in design of the virtual
programming lab (VPL) used as part of the distance education work of
NPAC.  Saleh extended the functionality of VPL and made it into a
robust and user-friendly package.

These contributions aside, Saleh's main research interests are in
algorithms and heuristics for physical optimization problems such as
resource allocation and scheduling.  He has also been looking at shared
memory and message-passing programming models for parallel and
distributed computing in general.

My experience leads me to believe that Saleh would become a highly
valued colleague in any organization involved in development of
computer software or hardware.  I can highly recommend him for his
considerable technical abilities, his constant enthusiasm, and his
professional and personal good nature.

\closing{Yours sincerely,\\\vspace{0.8in}Bryan Carpenter}

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