Applications and Network Futurists
Eric Brewer became the Director of Intel Research Berkeley in June 2005, taking a leave of absence from his position as Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley to assume leadership of the lab.
Dr. Brewer's research focuses on all aspects of Internet-based systems, including technology, strategy, and government. As a researcher, he has led projects on scalable servers, search engines, network infrastructure, sensor networks, and security. His current focus is (high) technology for developing regions, with projects in India, Cambodia, Mexico, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (so far), and including communications, health, education, and e-government.
In 1996, Dr. Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation with a UC Berkeley graduate student based on their research prototype, and helped lead it onto the Nasdaq 100 before it was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003. In 2000, he founded the Federal Search Foundation, a 501-3(c) organization focused on improving consumer access to government information. Working with President Clinton, Dr. Brewer helped to create FirstGov.gov, the official portal of the Federal government, which launched in September 2000.
Brewer received an MS and PhD in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley. He was named by the World Economic Forum as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow," by The Industry Standard as the "most influential person on the architecture of the Internet", by InfoWorld as a top ten innovator, by Technology Review as one of the 100 most influential people for the 21st century (the "TR100"), and by Forbes as one of the magazine's 12 "e-mavericks," for which he appeared on the cover.
David Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he has worked since
receiving his Ph.D. there in 1973. Since the mid 70s, Dr. Clark has been
leading the development of the Internet; from 1981-1989 he acted as
Chief Protocol Architect in this development, and chaired the Internet
Activities Board. His current research looks at re-definition of the
architectural underpinnings of the Internet, and the relation of
technology and architecture to economic, societal and policy
considerations. He is helping the U.S. National Science foundation
organize their Future Internet Design program. Dr. Clark is past
chairman of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the
National Academies, and has contributed to a number of studies on the
societal and policy impact of computer communications. He is co-director
of the MIT Communications Futures Program, a project for industry
collaboration and coordination along the communications value chain.
Douglas Comer is VP of Research at Cisco Systems, and a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University,
where is currently on leave.
Professor Comer is an internationally recognized expert on computer
networking and the TCP/IP protocols. He has been working with TCP/IP
and the Internet since the late 1970s. Comer established his reputation
as a principal investigator on several early Internet research projects.
He served as chairman of the CSNET technical committee, chairman of the
DARPA Distributed Systems Architecture Board, and was a member of the
Internet Activities Board (the group of researchers who built the
Internet).
At Cisco Systems, Comer heads the Cisco Research Center, which
has as its mission providing Cisco with the talent and ideas needed
to keep Cisco competitive in the long-term. The Research Center
fosters collaborative research projects in which Cisco engineers
engage with researchers.
Comer has taught courses on TCP/IP and networking technologies
for a variety of audiences, including graduate and undergraduate
students, in-depth courses for engineers, and less technical
courses for non-engineers.
Professor Comer is well-known for his series of ground breaking
textbooks on computer networks, the Internet, computer operating
systems, and computer architecture, and network processors. His books
have been translated into sixteen languages, and are widely used in
both industry and academia around the world. Comer's three-volume
series Internetworking With TCP/IP is often cited as an authoritative
reference for the Internet protocols. Comer's texts are widely
recognized in academia, and have been used by top Computer Science
Departments listed in the U.S. and other countries.
Lexmark printers.
For over twenty years, Professor Comer served as editor-in-chief
of the research journal Software-Practice and Experience, published
by John Wiley & Sons. Comer is a fellow of the ACM and the recipient
of numerous teaching awards.
Additional information can be found at:
www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/comer
Chip Elliott is the GENI Project Director. He is
an IEEE Fellow with over 85 patents issued and
pending. Most recently he has led DARPA's design
and build-out of the world's first quantum
cryptography network - 10 optical nodes across
metro Boston providing highly secure key
distribution non-stop through both telecom fibers
and the atmosphere. He has previously led the
design and implementation of large-scale,
mission-critical "ad hoc" radio networks now used
in nearly a dozen nations including the United
States, UK, and Canada. He received Frost &
Sullivan's Award for Excellence in Technology
(2005), is a Fellow of the World Technology
Network, and a Finalist for the 2004 World
Technology Award for his leadership in quantum
cryptography. Mr. Elliott has also served on a
number of national advisory panels, including the
Defense Science Board, Naval Studies Board
(National Academy of Sciences), Army Science
Board, and the Technical Experts Panel for
Quantum Cryptography (DTO), and has held visiting
faculty positions at Dartmouth College, Tunghai
University in Taiwan, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Van Jacobson joined PARC as a research fellow in August 2006, and also serves as Chief Scientist for Packet Design in the adjacent Xerox complex. Prior to that, he was Chief Scientist at Cisco Systems and group leader for the Network Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Jacobson is best known for his work in IP network performance and scaling; his work redesigning TCP/IP's flow control algorithms to better handle congestion is said to have saved the Internet from collapsing due to traffic in 1988-1989. He is also well-known for the TCP/IP Header Compression protocol described in RFC 1144, mainly meant to improve performance over low-speed links, popularly known as Van Jacobson TCP/IP Header Compression. Furthermore he has co-written a few widely used network diagnostics tools, such as traceroute, pathchar and tcpdump.
For his work, Jacobson received the 2001 ACM SIGCOMM Award, the 2003 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
In January 2006 at Linux.conf.au, Jacobson presented another idea about network performance improvement, which has since been referred to as network channels.
Jacobson discussed his ideas on Content-centric networking in August 2006 as part of the Google Tech Talks. This is the focus of his current work at PARC.
Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRC's committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.
Larry Peterson is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at
Princeton University. He is Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab
Consortium and recently chaired the planning group that helped launch
the GENI Initiative. He is also a co-author of the best selling
networking textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach." His
research focuses on the design and implementation of networked
systems.
Professor Peterson has served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM
Transactions on Computer Systems, on the Editorial Board for the
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the IEEE Journal on Select
Areas in Communication, and as program chair for SOSP, NSDI, and
HotNets. Peterson is a Fellow of the ACM. He received his Ph.D. degree
from Purdue University in 1985.
Dipankar Raychaudhuri is Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director, WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Lab) at Rutgers University. As WINLAB's Director, he is responsible for a cooperative industry-university research center with focus on next-generation wireless technologies. WINLAB's current research scope includes topics such as RF/sensor devices, cognitive radio, ad-hoc mesh networks, wireless security, future Internet architecture, and pervasive computing. He is principal investigator of the NSF funded "ORBIT" open-access next-generation wireless network testbed at Rutgers, and also serves as co-chair of the NSF GENI Wireless Working Group working on wireless aspects of a global experimental infrastructure for the future Internet. He has previously held progressively responsible corporate R&D positions in the telecom/networking industry including: Chief Scientist, Iospan Wireless (2000-01), Assistant General Manager & Dept Head-Systems Architecture, NEC USA C&C Research Laboratories (1993-99) and Head, Broadband Communications Research, Sarnoff Corp (1990-92).
Dr. Raychaudhuri obtained his B.Tech (Hons) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees from SUNY, Stony Brook in 1978, 79. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
David P. Reed is an adjunct professor at MIT whose research focuses on designing systems that manage, communicate, and manipulate information shared among people. He is best known for co-developing the Internet design principle known as the "end-to-end argument" (with MIT Professors J.H. Saltzer and David D. Clark), and "Reed's Law," which describes the economics of group formation in networks.
Reed works with Andrew Lippman in developing the Lab's Viral Communications program, exploring the adaptive, scalable, and evolving wireless network architectures that have fascinated him for years. In addition, along with Lippman, David D. Clark of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Prof. Charles Fine of the Sloan School of Management, he has helped create the MIT Communications Futures Program.
A member of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, where he is an HP Fellow, Reed has also consulted widely to the computer industry, and has served as senior research scientist at Interval Research Corporation and as vice president and chief scientist for Lotus Development Corporation. Previously he was vice president of research and development and chief scientist at Software Arts.
Reed was a faculty member in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from 1978 to 1983, working in the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS). He also earned his BS, MS, EE, and PhD degrees in EECS while conducting research at LCS and its predecessor, Project MAC.
More information about professor Reed can be found at this wikipedia reference
Eric Brewer became the Director of Intel Research Berkeley in June 2005, taking a leave of absence from his position as Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley to assume leadership of the lab.
Dr. Brewer's research focuses on all aspects of Internet-based systems, including technology, strategy, and government. As a researcher, he has led projects on scalable servers, search engines, network infrastructure, sensor networks, and security. His current focus is (high) technology for developing regions, with projects in India, Cambodia, Mexico, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (so far), and including communications, health, education, and e-government.
In 1996, Dr. Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation with a UC Berkeley graduate student based on their research prototype, and helped lead it onto the Nasdaq 100 before it was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003. In 2000, he founded the Federal Search Foundation, a 501-3(c) organization focused on improving consumer access to government information. Working with President Clinton, Dr. Brewer helped to create FirstGov.gov, the official portal of the Federal government, which launched in September 2000.
Brewer received an MS and PhD in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley. He was named by the World Economic Forum as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow," by The Industry Standard as the "most influential person on the architecture of the Internet", by InfoWorld as a top ten innovator, by Technology Review as one of the 100 most influential people for the 21st century (the "TR100"), and by Forbes as one of the magazine's 12 "e-mavericks," for which he appeared on the cover.
David Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he has worked since
receiving his Ph.D. there in 1973. Since the mid 70s, Dr. Clark has been
leading the development of the Internet; from 1981-1989 he acted as
Chief Protocol Architect in this development, and chaired the Internet
Activities Board. His current research looks at re-definition of the
architectural underpinnings of the Internet, and the relation of
technology and architecture to economic, societal and policy
considerations. He is helping the U.S. National Science foundation
organize their Future Internet Design program. Dr. Clark is past
chairman of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the
National Academies, and has contributed to a number of studies on the
societal and policy impact of computer communications. He is co-director
of the MIT Communications Futures Program, a project for industry
collaboration and coordination along the communications value chain.
Douglas Comer is VP of Research at Cisco Systems, and a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University,
where is currently on leave.
Professor Comer is an internationally recognized expert on computer
networking and the TCP/IP protocols. He has been working with TCP/IP
and the Internet since the late 1970s. Comer established his reputation
as a principal investigator on several early Internet research projects.
He served as chairman of the CSNET technical committee, chairman of the
DARPA Distributed Systems Architecture Board, and was a member of the
Internet Activities Board (the group of researchers who built the
Internet).
At Cisco Systems, Comer heads the Cisco Research Center, which
has as its mission providing Cisco with the talent and ideas needed
to keep Cisco competitive in the long-term. The Research Center
fosters collaborative research projects in which Cisco engineers
engage with researchers.
Comer has taught courses on TCP/IP and networking technologies
for a variety of audiences, including graduate and undergraduate
students, in-depth courses for engineers, and less technical
courses for non-engineers.
Professor Comer is well-known for his series of ground breaking
textbooks on computer networks, the Internet, computer operating
systems, and computer architecture, and network processors. His books
have been translated into sixteen languages, and are widely used in
both industry and academia around the world. Comer's three-volume
series Internetworking With TCP/IP is often cited as an authoritative
reference for the Internet protocols. Comer's texts are widely
recognized in academia, and have been used by top Computer Science
Departments listed in the U.S. and other countries.
Lexmark printers.
For over twenty years, Professor Comer served as editor-in-chief
of the research journal Software-Practice and Experience, published
by John Wiley & Sons. Comer is a fellow of the ACM and the recipient
of numerous teaching awards.
Additional information can be found at:
www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/comer
Chip Elliott is the GENI Project Director. He is
an IEEE Fellow with over 85 patents issued and
pending. Most recently he has led DARPA's design
and build-out of the world's first quantum
cryptography network - 10 optical nodes across
metro Boston providing highly secure key
distribution non-stop through both telecom fibers
and the atmosphere. He has previously led the
design and implementation of large-scale,
mission-critical "ad hoc" radio networks now used
in nearly a dozen nations including the United
States, UK, and Canada. He received Frost &
Sullivan's Award for Excellence in Technology
(2005), is a Fellow of the World Technology
Network, and a Finalist for the 2004 World
Technology Award for his leadership in quantum
cryptography. Mr. Elliott has also served on a
number of national advisory panels, including the
Defense Science Board, Naval Studies Board
(National Academy of Sciences), Army Science
Board, and the Technical Experts Panel for
Quantum Cryptography (DTO), and has held visiting
faculty positions at Dartmouth College, Tunghai
University in Taiwan, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Van Jacobson joined PARC as a research fellow in August 2006, and also serves as Chief Scientist for Packet Design in the adjacent Xerox complex. Prior to that, he was Chief Scientist at Cisco Systems and group leader for the Network Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Jacobson is best known for his work in IP network performance and scaling; his work redesigning TCP/IP's flow control algorithms to better handle congestion is said to have saved the Internet from collapsing due to traffic in 1988-1989. He is also well-known for the TCP/IP Header Compression protocol described in RFC 1144, mainly meant to improve performance over low-speed links, popularly known as Van Jacobson TCP/IP Header Compression. Furthermore he has co-written a few widely used network diagnostics tools, such as traceroute, pathchar and tcpdump.
For his work, Jacobson received the 2001 ACM SIGCOMM Award, the 2003 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
In January 2006 at Linux.conf.au, Jacobson presented another idea about network performance improvement, which has since been referred to as network channels.
Jacobson discussed his ideas on Content-centric networking in August 2006 as part of the Google Tech Talks. This is the focus of his current work at PARC.
Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRC's committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.
Vivek Pai joined Princeton University in 2000, and conducts research
on wide-area distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and
server performance. His research group developed and has been running
the CoDeeN content distribution network for over three years. This
system services over 25 million requests per day from a
globally-dispersed daily client population of over 50,000 users. They
also developed the CoBlitz scalable large-file system, which is
heavily used to serve audio and video content by non-researchers, and
often serves over a terabyte of data per day, with peaks exceeding a
gigabit per second.
Larry Peterson is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at
Princeton University. He is Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab
Consortium and recently chaired the planning group that helped launch
the GENI Initiative. He is also a co-author of the best selling
networking textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach." His
research focuses on the design and implementation of networked
systems.
Professor Peterson has served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM
Transactions on Computer Systems, on the Editorial Board for the
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the IEEE Journal on Select
Areas in Communication, and as program chair for SOSP, NSDI, and
HotNets. Peterson is a Fellow of the ACM. He received his Ph.D. degree
from Purdue University in 1985.
Dipankar Raychaudhuri is Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director, WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Lab) at Rutgers University. As WINLAB's Director, he is responsible for a cooperative industry-university research center with focus on next-generation wireless technologies. WINLAB's current research scope includes topics such as RF/sensor devices, cognitive radio, ad-hoc mesh networks, wireless security, future Internet architecture, and pervasive computing. He is principal investigator of the NSF funded "ORBIT" open-access next-generation wireless network testbed at Rutgers, and also serves as co-chair of the NSF GENI Wireless Working Group working on wireless aspects of a global experimental infrastructure for the future Internet. He has previously held progressively responsible corporate R&D positions in the telecom/networking industry including: Chief Scientist, Iospan Wireless (2000-01), Assistant General Manager & Dept Head-Systems Architecture, NEC USA C&C Research Laboratories (1993-99) and Head, Broadband Communications Research, Sarnoff Corp (1990-92).
Dr. Raychaudhuri obtained his B.Tech (Hons) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees from SUNY, Stony Brook in 1978, 79. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
David P. Reed is an adjunct professor at MIT whose research focuses on designing systems that manage, communicate, and manipulate information shared among people. He is best known for co-developing the Internet design principle known as the "end-to-end argument" (with MIT Professors J.H. Saltzer and David D. Clark), and "Reed's Law," which describes the economics of group formation in networks.
Reed works with Andrew Lippman in developing the Lab's Viral Communications program, exploring the adaptive, scalable, and evolving wireless network architectures that have fascinated him for years. In addition, along with Lippman, David D. Clark of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Prof. Charles Fine of the Sloan School of Management, he has helped create the MIT Communications Futures Program.
A member of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, where he is an HP Fellow, Reed has also consulted widely to the computer industry, and has served as senior research scientist at Interval Research Corporation and as vice president and chief scientist for Lotus Development Corporation. Previously he was vice president of research and development and chief scientist at Software Arts.
Reed was a faculty member in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from 1978 to 1983, working in the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS). He also earned his BS, MS, EE, and PhD degrees in EECS while conducting research at LCS and its predecessor, Project MAC.
More information about professor Reed can be found at this wikipedia reference
Panel Moderator
Mic Bowman received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. He joined Intel's Personal Information Management group in 1999. While at Intel, he has developed personal information retrieval applications, context-based communication systems, and middleware services for mobile applications, in addition to his role in the PlanetLab SRP. Prior to joining Intel, Bowman worked at Transarc Corporation, where he led research teams that developed distributed search services for the Web, distributed file systems, and naming systems.
Panelists
John Wroclawski is Director of the Computer Networks division at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, with responsibility for the strategic direction of this 40-person research group. ISI's Computer Networks Division maintains programs of research in areas such as sensor nets, network and distributed system security, Internet protocols and architecture, and space systems networking. Prior to joining ISI Mr. Wroclawski held positions as Research Scientist with the Advanced Network Architecture Group at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, and with MIT's Program on Internet and Telecommunications Convergence. His technical interests include the architecture, technology and protocols of large, decentralized communication systems such as the Internet, systems aspects of pervasive computing, and the core principles of self-organizing systems. Mr. Wroclawski is a member of the GENI planning group and co-chair of the GENI facility architecture working group. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE, and has recently served on the executive committee of ACM SIGCOMM and as Editor of ACM Computer Communications Review.
Rick McGeer earned his Ph. D. in Computer Science from UC-Berkeley in 1989. From 1989-1991 he was a professor in the Computer Sciences department at the University of British Columbia. In 1991 he returned to UC-Berkeley as a Research Engineer in the EECS Department. In 1993, together with Alex Saldanha, Luciano Lavagno, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vicentelli and Patrick Scaglia, he founded the Cadence Berkeley Labs where he served as a Research Scientist until 1999. In 1998, together with Alex Saldanha, he founded Softface, Inc., a successful software startup subsequently sold to Ariba. In February, 2003, Rick joined HP Labs as Scientific Liaison to the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) program at the University of California. He also coordinates HP's involvement in the PlanetLab consortium, a worldwide overlay network currently consisting of over 500 nodes at 230 sites worldwide.
Rick is the author of over 50 refereed technical publications, "Integrating Functional and Temporal Domains in Logic Design" (Kluwer, 1991), holds seven patents and has won best paper awards at the International Conference on VLSI, the Cadence Technical Conference and the Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences. He has served on numerous conference technical committees, and has served as Program Chair of the Conference on Creating, Connecting, and Collaborating through Computers and as General Chair of the IEEE Workshop on VLSI, the ACM/IEEE Workshop on Logic Synthesis, and the founding General Chair of the Tau Workshop series. He currently serves on the steering commitee of the PlanetLab consortium and on the Croquet Committee.
Guru Parulkar has been in the field of networking for close to 20 years and has worked in academia, startups, a large company, and a top tier venture capital firm. He joined National Science Foundation (NSF) as a member of its then new Computer and Network Systems Division in October 2003.
Guru came to NSF to work with the broader research community and together make something "significant" happen. He played a critical role in conceiving and championing the GENI Initiative in collaboration with the research community and CISE leadership. As a part of GENI Initiative, Darleen Fisher and he championed and created a new research program on Future Internet Design (FIND). He also initiated a new research program on networking of sensor systems (NeTS-NOSS) in 2003 and managed it for three years. He has been also co-chairing Networking Research Team (NRT) of the inter-agency group called Large Scale Networking (LSN) since late 2003 and also served on NLR (National Lambda Rail) Network Research Council during FY 2005. He received NSF Director's award for Program Management Excellence in 2006.
Prior to NSF, Guru spent several years in Silicon Valley doing high tech startups. He co-founded Growth Networks and served as its CTO and Director. Growth Networks was acquired by Cisco Systems and provided key technologies for Cisco's flagship router product line, CRS. He also co-founded a multimedia wireless company called Sceos Technologies that was seed funded and incubated at Sequoia Capital. Sceos has evolved to be Ruckus Wireless. He also played a key role in founding of a network security company called Nevis Networks. He also served on the board of a network security company called NetSift that was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005. He continues to serve as an advisor to high tech startups.
Guru also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) during 2001 and received its Entrepreneur of the year award for 2001. He is also a charter member of TiE Washington DC.
Prior to startups, Guru was a Professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis from 1987 to 1999. He served as a Director of Applied Research Laboratory, one of the best in its class and initiated and led several large multi-investigator systems projects in the area of gigabit networking, next generation Internet, multimedia systems and networking, active networking, and network measurement and visualization. Highlights of Guru's professional services include ACM SIGCOMM'99 PC Co-Chair, NOSSDAV'97 PC Chair, ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking Technical and Publications Editor, IEEE Network Editor, and Co-Editor IEEE JSAC special issue on Gigabit Networking.
Guru received Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 1987 (advisor: Professor Dave Farber). He is a recipient of an alumni outstanding achievement award and Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement award in Computer and information Sciences from the University of Delaware.
Prof. Henning Schulzrinne received his undergraduate degree in
economics and electrical engineering from the Darmstadt University of
Technology, Germany, his MSEE degree as a Fulbright scholar from the
University of Cincinnati, Ohio and his Ph.D. degree from the University
of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was a member of
technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill and an associate
department head at GMD-Fokus (Berlin), before joining the Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering departments at Columbia University,
New York. He is currently chair of the Department of Computer Science.
He is editor of the "IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking", the "ACM
Transactions on Multimedia Computing" and the "ComSoc Surveys &
Tutorials" and former editor of the "IEEE Internet Computing Magazine",
"IEEE Transactions on Image Processing" and "Journal of Communications
and Networks",
He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE
Communications Society and the ACM SIGCOMM Executive Committee, former
chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees on
Computer Communications and the Internet and has been technical program
chair of Global Internet, Infocom, NOSSDAV and IPtel and was General
Chair of ACM Multimedia 2004. He also was a member of the IAB (Internet
Architecture Board).
Protocols co-developed by him are now Internet standards, used by almost
all Internet telephony and multimedia applications. His research
interests include Internet multimedia systems, quality of service, and
performance evaluation.
He serves as Chief Scientist for FirstHand Technologies. and as former
Chief Scientific Advisor for Ubiquity Software Corporation. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE, has received the New York City Mayor's Award for
Excellence in Science and Technology, the VON Pioneer Award.
John Wroclawski is Director of the Computer Networks division at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, with responsibility for the strategic direction of this 40-person research group. ISI's Computer Networks Division maintains programs of research in areas such as sensor nets, network and distributed system security, Internet protocols and architecture, and space systems networking. Prior to joining ISI Mr. Wroclawski held positions as Research Scientist with the Advanced Network Architecture Group at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, and with MIT's Program on Internet and Telecommunications Convergence. His technical interests include the architecture, technology and protocols of large, decentralized communication systems such as the Internet, systems aspects of pervasive computing, and the core principles of self-organizing systems. Mr. Wroclawski is a member of the GENI planning group and co-chair of the GENI facility architecture working group. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE, and has recently served on the executive committee of ACM SIGCOMM and as Editor of ACM Computer Communications Review.