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 [...]
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 [...]
During the course of a given week, I answer a lot of technical questions. They range from the friend asking, “What laptop should I buy?” to strangers with very specific questions about the source code used in my research. I rather enjoy solving technical questions and taking a line from Jon Udell’s “Too busy to blog?” post, I’m [...]
