Refereed Publications

• M. Lewis, L. Lacher, Z. Kurmas.Industry Sabbaticals in Computing: Motivation and Preparation Computer Science and Computer Engineering (CSCE) 2024.
• Z. Kurmas.DLUnit: A Unit Testing Framework for Simulated Digital Logic Circuits 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), October 2024.
• E. Spertus, Z. Kurmas. Mastery-Based Learning in Undergraduate Computer Architecture, Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, June 2021.
• Z. Kurmas.KielceRB: a highly customizable templating engine for course documents. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 36, Issue 4, October 2020.
• C. Trefftz, H. McGuire, Z. Kurmas, J. Scripps, J. Pineda. Exhaustive Community Enumeration on a Cluster. Proceedings of the 8th Annual IEEE Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, January, 2018.
• Z. Kurmas.ICOS: Support for "Bare Metal" Computer Architecture Assignments Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, June 2017.
• Z. Kurmas. MIPSUnit: A Unit Testing Framework for MIPS Assembly. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March, 2017
• C. Trefftz, H. McGuire, Z. Kurmas, and J. Scripps. Exhaustive Community Enumeration in Parallel. Parallel Processing Letters 26(2):1-16, 2016.
• Z. Kurmas, H. McGuire, J. Scripps, and C. Trefftz. Enumerating Communities for a Deeper Understanding of Community Finding. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence, August 2014.
• R. Agrawal, Z. Kurmas, et al. Motivating Students to Learn Programming Using Game Assignments. 2012 ASEE Annual Conference, June 2012.
• D. Poplawski, Z. Kurmas. JLS/JLSCircuitTester: A Comprehensive Logic Design and Simulation Tool. 8th Koli Calling International Conference On Computing Education Research, November 2008. (p. 105-108)
• Z. Kurmas. Improving student performance using automated testing of simulated digital logic circuits. Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2008), July 2008.
• Z. Kurmas, J. Zito, L. Trevino, and R. Lush Generating a Jump Distance Based Synthetic Disk Access Pattern. Proceedings of the 14th NASA Goddard - 23rd IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 06), May 2006.
• Z. Kurmas and K. Keeton. Using the Distiller to direct the development of self-configuration software. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04), May 2004.
• Z. Kurmas and K. Keeton. Practical applications of Iterative Workload Distillation. MeasureIT (Journal of the Computer Measurement Group), February 2004 (Issue 2.02).
• Z. Kurmas, K. Keeton, and K. Mackenzie. href="papers/mascots03.pdf">Synthesizing representative I/O workloads using iterative distillation. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS), October 2003.
• Z. Kurmas, R. Becker-Szendy, and K. Keeton. Iterative development of an I/O workload characterization . Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation Using Commercial Workloads (CAECW), January 2001.
• Z. Kurmas and A. Chervenak. Evaluating backup algorithms . Proceedings of the Eighth Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, March 2000
• A. Chervenak, V. Vellanki, and Z. Kurmas. "Protecting file systems: A survey of backup techniques." Proceedings of the Sixth Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, March 1998.

Technical Reports

• Z. Kurmas, J. Zito, L. Trevino, and R. Lush Generating a Jump Distance Based Synthetic Disk Access Pattern (Extended Version). GVSU_CIS-2006-01, May 2006.
• Z. Kurmas, K. Keeton, and K. Mackenzie. Synthesizing representative I/O workloads using iterative distillation (Extended version). GIT-CERCS-03-29, October 2003.

Posters

• Z. Kurmas. PLNQ: Defining Coding Katas using a Single Jupyter Notebook Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2025
• Z. Kurmas. Poprawa: A Gradebook Library for Alternatively-Graded Courses Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2024
• Z. Kurmas and J. Rosenhauer. "MIPSUnit: A Unit Testing Framework for MIPS Assembly." (poster) Presented at SIGCSE 2015.
• Z. Kurmas. "Zawilinski: helping beginning programmers conduct mediawiki-based research". (poster) (abstract) Presented at ITiCSE 2012.
• Z. Kurmas. "Kielce: Configurable HTML course documents." (poster) (abstract) Presented at ITiCSE 2012.
• Z. Kurmas. "Zawilinski: A library for studying grammar in Wiktionary." (poster) (abstract) Presented at WikiSym 2010.
• Z. Kurmas. "Encouraging language students to contribute inflection data to Wiktionary." (poster) (abstract) Presented at WikiSym 2010.
• Z. Kurmas. "Automated Testing of Simulated Digital Circuits and CPUs." (poster) Presented at SIGCSE 2008.
• Z. Kurmas, J. Zito, L. Trevino, and R. Lush. Generating a Jump Distance Based Synthetic Disk Access Pattern". (poster) (paper) Presented at MSST2006.
• Z. Kurmas, K. Keeton, and K. Mackenzie. "Synthesizing Representative I/O Workloads Using Iterative Distillation." (poster) Presented at SOSP03.

Sabbatical Reports

• 2010: Developing software at Atomic Object

Other

• Z. Kurmas. "The presenter first design approach" (Tools and Tips presentation). (abstract) Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2012), July, 2012.
• Z. Kurmas. "Igel Ärgern" (Nifty assignment). (abstract) (assignment) Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012), February, 2012.
• Z. Kurmas and J. Vanderhyde "Board game project ideas for CS 1 and CS 2" (workshop). Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012), February, 2012.
• D. Poplawski, Z. Kurmas. "JLS: a pedagogically targeted logic design and simulation tool." (Tools and Tips presentation) (abstract) Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2008), July, 2008.
• Z. Kurmas "Nifty Tools & Assignments Lab: Planet Lab." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 23, Number 1. October, 2007.
• Z. Kurmas, H. Dulimarta, Y. Tao "Nifty Tools & Assignments Lab: Sudoku." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 23, Number 1. October, 2007.

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