Larry L. Peterson

Computer Scientist, Author

1958 –

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Who is Larry L. Peterson?

Prof. Larry L. Peterson is a noted American computer scientist at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey. He is also Chief Scientist at Verivue, Inc.

Dr. Peterson received his B.S. in Computer Science from Kearney State College, Nebraska, in 1979, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. He then served as a professor at the University of Arizona, where he led its Network Systems Research Group and was involved in the design and implementation of the x-kernel and Scout operating systems, the Profile and Univers naming services, and the Psync communication protocol.

Dr. Peterson is currently the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton, where he also serves as Department Chair and Director of the PlanetLab Consortium. In this role, he chaired planning efforts for the National Science Foundation's GENI Initiative. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Computer Systems, on the Editorial Board for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the IEEE Journal on Select Areas in Communication, and program chair for SOSP, NSDI, and HotNets. He is the co-author of a general networking textbook, Computer Networks: A Systems Approach. He is an ACM Fellow and the recipient of the IEEE Kobayashi Award.

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Born
1958
Also known as
  • Larry Peterson
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Education
  • Purdue University
  • University of Nebraska at Kearney
  • Bachelor of Science

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on July 23, 2013

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