Ken Birman
Researcher in fault-tolerant distributed computing systems
About Ken Birman
Born 1955. Ken Birman is an American computer scientist, university teacher, cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and cornell University.
Kenneth P. Birman (born November 18, 1955) is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He currently holds the N. Rama Rao Chair in Computer Science.
Education Birman received his B.S. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.
Research and publications Birman's research is mainly concerned with scalability of distributed systems, security technologies, and system management tools employed in cloud computing.
An ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, Birman was Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems from 1993-1998. He is also the author of several books, most recently Reliable Distributed Computing: Technologies, Web Services, and Applications, published by Springer-Verlag in May 2007.
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researcher in fault-tolerant distributed computing systems
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Ken Birman was born on 18 November 1955 in New York City.
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Ken Birman is a computer scientist, university teacher, cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and cornell University.
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