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Professor
Birman
has worked on problems in security, fault-tolerance and scalability for
more than two decades. Widely used
software developed by his team includes the Isis Toolkit (now used by the New
York and Swiss Stock Exchanges, the French Air Traffic Control System, the AEGIS
Warship and the Florida Electric Power and Gas distributed system), the Horus
and Ensemble Systems, Astrolabe and Kelips.
Birman founded two companies, Isis Distributed Systems and Reliable
Network Solutions, that commercialized DARPA-developed technologies
successfully. He headed the 1995
DARPA ISAT study on building Highly Assured Critical Infrastructure Systems, an
effort that led to a substantial DARPA activity in the area from 1996 through
2000, and has testified before many government agencies and task forces.
He is the author of several books on building secure, reliable
distributed systems, and has written more than 100 research papers, including
some 25 papers in major journals and some 50 in major peer-reviewed conferences.
Professor Birman has been Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Computer
Science, is a Fellow of the ACM, and is Program Committee Chair for the upcoming
20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-20). |
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Professor
Gehrke's research interests are in the area of data mining, database systems,
and distributed computing, and he is the recipient of an NSF Career Award, an
IBM Faculty Award, and a Sloan Fellowship. Gehrke’s group has built the Cougar
System, a distributed database system for sensor networks as part of the DARPA
SensIT program, and his group is currently building a large-scale distributed
mining and monitoring system for the Intelligence Community as part of recent
counter-terrorism activities. Professor Gehrke is the co-author of one of the
leading undergraduate database textbooks, and he has widely published in
database systems and data mining. He currently serves as the program co-chair of
the 2004 ACM SIGKDD Data Mining Conference.
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Professor
Francis has worked in the area of large scale, self-organizing networks
for over fifteen years. He is well
known for producing highly original research, and for contributing a number of
key ideas to both the research and commercial networking communities. His work on Yoid end-system multicast pioneered the concept
of self-organizing overlay multicast. Likewise,
his work on IDMaps initiated the entire research area of scalable discovery of
host proximity, an important aspect of any overlay network.
Professor Francis is the inventor of Network Address Translation, a
ubiquitously deployed technology that is, more than anything else, responsible
for extending the number of IP addressable hosts beyond the 32-bit limitation. He has contributed key concepts to IPv6.
His early work on Landmark hierarchies can be found in current ad hoc
wireless networking proposals, and the distributed name-to-address resolution
method used with Landmark anticipated modern Distributed Hash Table (DHT) based
P2P systems by over a decade. Professor
Francis has over a dozen USA and international patents, numerous research
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Dr.
van Renesse received his PhD degree for his work on designing and implementing
the well-known Amoeba operating system, one of the first operating systems
designed to have a very small “microkernel” and to provide other
functionality outside of the kernel’s address space.
This style of system rapidly became important, and the approach is at the
core of Microsoft’s Windows XP platform.
Subsequently, van Renesse became involved in communications challenges
for modern networks, building the Horus system (a modernized version of the Isis
Toolkit that set performance records for fault-tolerance and replication in
demanding settings), and most recently invented Astrolabe.
Dr. van Renesse has published extensively, co-authored one book, and
participated in dozens of program committees and other positions of
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Dr.
Vogels is a world expert on the challenges of building extremely large Web
Services and Web-based database systems. He
was the first author on the architecture paper that set down the principles
underlying Microsoft’s NT Clusters platform (core of their data center
technologies), and has emerged as a leader in efforts to tackle issues of
reliability and high availability in the new Web Services architecture, which is
rapidly becoming the most important standard for computer-to-computer
interactions. Dr. Vogels is
uniquely positioned to help us identify ways that our SRS technologies might
transition into this standards activity, and integrate with Web Services
platforms and tools. |
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Lou
DiPalma is the Manager of the Integrated Warfare and Sensor Systems
Software Department of the Integrated Defense Systems Operation of the Raytheon
Company. Lou is Principal
Investigator for the DARPA Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Systems (ARMS)
Open Experimentation Platform contract. He
has been involved in the design and development of Submarine Combat Control
Systems for all variants of submarines in the US Navy’s fleet, Weapon
Launching System Programs, as well as Command and Control Systems for surface
combatants including DD(X). His
focus has been centered on the infusion of new technology, including Advanced
Middleware and Intelligent Systems Technology, into the Raytheon IDS product
line, with a primary focus on Naval Combat Systems. |
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Paul Work is currently a Senior Software Principal Engineer with Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business unit. Paul is the Principal Investigator for the ONR Real-Time Data Distribution Services for the FORCEnet Architecture Framework program. He is also one of the senior contributors and architects in the DARPA Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Systems (ARMS) Open Experimentation Platform program. Paul is responsible for the coordination of advanced technology development, system architecture, and information infrastructure across a number of submarine and surface ship programs. Paul has over 29 years of experience in management, systems engineering, software engineering, programming, and operating commercial client/server systems, military tactical, and non-tactical real-time systems. Paul has a BS in Computer Science from Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, and a MS in Engineering Management from Drexel University, Pennsylvania. | ||
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Dr. Stefan Pleisch received his
Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland. He is currently working as a Post Doctoral
Researcher at Cornell University. For the last couple of years he has made contributions to the field of distributed systems,
particularly on group communication, fault-tolerant mobile agents, distributed systems management,
and predicate detection in faulty environments. His research interests include
distributed systems, fault tolerance, mobile agents, mobile ad-hoc networks, replication,
and transactions. |
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Dr. Stefan Pleisch |
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Cornell University |
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Maya Haridasan joined the Ph.D. Program
in Computer Science at Cornell University in the Fall of 2003 after
graduating from the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Her experience during
undergraduate studies includes clock synchronization and performance
monitoring of parallel applications in clusters. Her current interest is
in publish/subscribe systems and related topics in distributed computing. |
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Maya Haridasan |
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Cornell University |
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Mahesh
Balakrishnan joined the Ph.D. program at Cornell in Fall
2003. He is interested in the intersection of traditional distributed
system paradigms like group communication with newer technologies such as
overlay networks and p2p systems. He is currently working on scalable
membership tracking, along with specialized multicast protocols with
unique reliability guarantees. He has a BS from Georgia Tech, where his
work included transparent methods for allowing components to be
hot-swapped. |
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Mahesh Balakrishnan |
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Cornell University |
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Krzysztof
Ostrowski joined the Ph.D. program in CS at Cornell in Fall 2003,
after receiving M.Sc. from University of Warsaw, Poland, and
spending over four years working in the industry in projects such
as storage virtualization and distributed management in a clustered
storage system, or automated policy and workflow management in
a large networked storage system, among others. He is generally interested
in building autonomous distributed systems capable of adapting to changes
in the environment, in particular self-configuring, fault-tolerant and
scalable. His most recent research focus is on the
scalability of reliable multicast |
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Krzysztof Ostrowski |
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Cornell University |
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