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Systems Researchers: Mike Freedman

25 March 2009 – 06:00

Mike Freedman and I have known each other since we were Masters students at MIT, working on things like the Tarzan anonymizing network (a parallel, pre-cursor to Tor). He went on to build the hugely successful (”as seen on Slashdot”) Coral content distribution network, which figured largely in his dissertation. It’s a great [...]

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Systems Researchers: Justin Cappos

16 March 2009 – 06:00

Justin Cappos received his PhD from the University of Arizona under the supervision of John Hartman. I met Justin several years ago at a PlanetLab Consortium meeting when he was starting to work on Stork, a system to simplify package deployment. He is currently a Post Doc at the University of Washington working [...]

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Systems Researchers Interview Series

14 March 2009 – 20:41

After my last post on implementing Chord, I thought it might be insightful and educational to examine how others are building research distributed systems. I have asked a number of colleagues who have built successful research systems to answer a few questions about their implementations. Here, successful roughly means that the system has [...]

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