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Jean Dollimore is an English computer scientist that worked at Queen Mary University of London, [1] notable for being co-author (together with George Coulouris, Tim Kindberg and Gordon Blair) of one of the standard distributed computer systems textbooks, Distributed Systems (ISBN 978-0132143011). This textbook alone has been cited over 4,700 ...
Michael (Mike) Dahlin is a computer engineer working with distributed systems, operating systems, and cloud computing. He currently serves as an Engineering Fellow at Google, where he leads the technical direction for Google Compute Engine and Borg, focusing on enhancing reliability, efficiency, and scalability, particularly in machine learning data centers.
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers. [1] [2] The components of a distributed system communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to
David Ross Cheriton (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, [1] [2] where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group.
Michael Burrows, FRS (born 1963) is a British computer scientist and the creator of the Burrows–Wheeler transform, currently working for Google. Born in Britain, as of 2018 he lives in the United States, although he remains a British citizen.
At Irvine his research work was focused on creating the world's first operational distributed computer system. While a member of the electrical engineering department of the University of Delaware, he helped conceive and organize the major American research networks CSNET, NSFNet, and the National Research and Education Network (NREN). He ...
In August 2005 he started his work at Saarbrücken's Max Planck Institute for Software Systems as the founding director. Druschel specializes in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer networks and security and operating systems. Along with Ant Rowstron, Druschel developed the Pastry distributed hash table technique at Microsoft.
Lorenzo Alvisi is an Italian computer scientist and Tisch University Professor at Cornell University. [1] Prior to joining Cornell, he was a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and the holder of the Endowed Professorship #5 at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on distributed systems and dependability.