@Misc{oldfield:thesis-proposal-talk,
  author = {Oldfield, Ron and Kotz, David},
  title = {Flexible Parallel {I/O} for Computational Grids},
  year = {2000},
  month = {May},
  howpublished = {Ph.D. thesis proposal for the Department of Computer Science,
  Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH}
}