J. Eliot B. Moss is an American computer scientist active in the fields of garbage collection and multiprocessor synchronization.
He has served on the executive committee of SIGPLAN, the Special Interest Group for programming languages for the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2012, his paper on transactional memory was recognized with a Dijkstra Prize, shared with Maurice Herlihy.
His dissertation was on nested transactions and was later published in a slightly revised form by the MIT Press (1985).
He is co-author of The Garbage Collection Handbook with Richard Jones and Antony Hosking, published in 2011 by Chapman and Hall.