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Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 74-80

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... His current major projects involve an innovative way to trace Internet packets to their origin and the use of signal processing techniques to perform traffic analysis.
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... Dr. Barford is on the Technical Advisory Board of epicRealm, Inc., and serves on the program committees of ACM SIGMETRICS 2003, the IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications 2003, the 2002 Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
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... His doctoral thesis, which pioneered the use of "measurement infrastructure" for conducting large-scale Internet measurement studies, was awarded the Sakrison Memorial Prize of the University of California, Berkeley, for outstanding dissertation research; this work was also cited as best student paper from ACM SIGCOMM for a paper derived from one of its chapters.
From page 77...
... Dr. Vernon has made contributions to commercial bus arbiters, cache coherence protocols, mesh interconnection networks with wormhole routing, the Sequent Symmetry bus design, commercial memory system design methods, analysis of parallel shared memory system architectures with complex modern processors, the Cray UNICOS operating system semaphore architecture, production parallel system job scheduling policies, the design of large parallel and distributed applications, scalable protocols for on-demand streaming with packet loss recovery, optimized media content delivery networks, media content delivery cost models, customized mean value analysis modeling techniques, LogP modeling techniques, task graph analysis techniques, interpolation approximation techniques, and Petri net modeling techniques.
From page 78...
... She has published more than 80 technical papers, including three that have won best-paper awards. She has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the 1993 NSF Blue Ribbon Panel for High Performance Computing, the NSF Computer Information Science and Engineering Advisory Board, the board of directors of the Computing Research Association, external advisory committees for various engineering colleges and computer science departments, and as recent chair of the ACM SIGMETRICS.
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... There she directed an analytical team supporting business development, product marketing, and field sales and developed business alliances for domestic and international network services. Previously she was a project director at the former Office of Technology Assessment, evaluating computer and communications technology trends and their social and economic impacts.
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... in international relations and German from Rhodes College in 1996. He has worked for the Hanns-Seidl Foundation in Munich, Germany, and in Washington, D.C., for the National Conference of State Legislatures' International Programs Office and for the Majority Staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.


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