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'''Godmar Back''' is an associate professor in [[Computer Science]]. He joined the department in 2004, and was granted associate professor status in 2010. Until joining Virginia Tech, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.
Dr. Back grew up in [[w:Sonneberg|Sonneburg, Germany]] and attended the Götheschule in [[w:Ilmenau|Ilmenau]]. From 1989 to 1993, he studied at the [[w:Humboldt University of Berlin|Humboldt University of Berlin]] and [[w:Berlin Institute of Technology|Technical University Berlin]]. He completed his Ph.D. at the [[w:University of Utah|University of Utah]] in 2002. While at the University of Utah, among other things, Dr. Back worked on development of the [[w:Lites|Lites]] [[w:Unix-like|Unix-like]] operating system.<ref>[https://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/lites/html/ext2fs.html ext2fs and msdosfs support in Lites]</ref> He wrote an [[w:ext2|ext2]] filesystem driver for the operating system, which was later used as the basis for ext2 support in [[w:FreeBSD|FreeBSD]].<ref>[https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ext2fs Ext2fs - FreeBSD Wiki]</ref> His dissertation was on processes in the KaffeOS Java virtual machine.<ref>[https://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/papers/kaffeos-osdi00-base.html Processes in KaffeOS: Isolation, Resource Management, and Sharing in Java]</ref>
At Virginia Tech, Dr. Back designed several courses in the Computer Science core curriculum, most notably [[CS 3214 Computer Systems]], which he teaches occasionally.