Associate Professor Electrical Engineering School of Engineering Southern Methodist University PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1990. MS and BS in Electrical Engineering, MIT, 1984

Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems is famous for saying that the "network is the computer" for several years before most people understood what it meant. This observation was remarkable in predicting the profound impact of the Internet on modern computing. This research project is directed towards a vision of Internet computing where the Internet will evolve to a coordinated collection of high-performance networks, distributed computers, storage systems, and middleware (sometimes called a computation grid). In this vision, the internet will be a powerful and pervasive computing utility, where access to the combined distributed computing resources of the network will be as simple and commonplace as electric power or telephony today. Many of the necessary basic technologies - high performance networks, distributed databases, supercomputers - exist today but have not been designed for the enormous scale and heterogeneity of the Internet environment. Resource management in high performance networks is a major activity in this research project. Another major research activity is in middleware, the crucial layer of software for discovering and coordinating resources in support of distributed applications.