William R. Mahoney received his B.A. and B.S. degrees from Southern Illinois University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska. He is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Peter Kiewit Institute. His primary research interests include language compilers, hardware and instruction set design, and code generation and optimization. Prior to the Kiewit Institute Dr. Mahoney worked for 20+ years in the computer design industry, specifically in the areas of embedded computing and real-time operating systems. During this time he was also on the part time faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His outside interests include bicycling, photography, and more bicycling.