| 1999 | ICDCS | ETE: A Customizable Approach to Measuring End-to-End Response Times and Their Components in Distributed Systems. | Joseph L. Hellerstein, Mark M. Maccabee, W. Nathaniel Mills III, John Turek |
| 1996 | ICASSP | Progressive classification in the compressed domain for large EOS satellite databases. | Vittorio Castelli, Chung-Sheng Li, John Turek, Ioannis Kontoyiannis |
| 1995 | PACT | Optimal Loop Scheduling on Multiprocessors: A Pumping Lemma for p-Processor Schedules. | Franco Gasperoni, Uwe Schwiegelshohn, John Turek |
| 1994 | SODA | Scheduling Parallel Tasks to Minimize Average Response Time. | John Turek, Uwe Schwiegelshohn, Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu |
| 1994 | SIGMETRICS | Scheduling Multiple Queries on a Parallel Machine. | Joel L. Wolf, John Turek, Ming-Syan Chen, Philip S. Yu |
| 1994 | SPAA | Scheduling Parallelizable Tasks to Minimize Average Response Time. | John Turek, Walter Ludwig, Joel L. Wolf, Lisa Fleischer, Prasoon Tiwari, Jason Glasgow, Uwe Schwiegelshohn, Philip S. Yu |
| 1992 | PODS | Locking without Blocking: Making Lock Based Concurrent Data Structure Algorithms Nonblocking. | John Turek, Dennis E. Shasha, Sundeep Prakash |
| 1992 | SIGMETRICS | Scheduling Parallelizable Tasks: Putting it All on the Shelf. | John Turek, Joel L. Wolf, Krishna R. Pattipati, Philip S. Yu, Icel Wolf |
| 1992 | SPAA | Approximate Algorithms Scheduling Parallelizable Tasks. | John Turek, Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu |
| 1991 | ICDE | An Effective Algorithm for Parallelizing Hash Joins in the Presence of Data Skew. | Joel L. Wolf, Daniel M. Dias, Philip S. Yu, John Turek |
| 1991 | ICDE | Optimal Buffer Partitioning for the Nested Block Join Algorithm. | Joel L. Wolf, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Krishna R. Pattipati, John Turek |