Srinivasan Keshav

Srinivasan Keshav is the author of a textbook on computer networks, An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking,[1][2] and the inventor, along with his students at the University of Waterloo, of KioskNet, a system for providing internet access in impoverished countries.[3] After undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, he received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis entitled Congestion Control in Computer Networks; his advisor was Domenico Ferrari.[4] He then joined the research staff at Bell Labs; while at Bell Labs, he also had visiting faculty positions at the IIT Delhi and Columbia University.[4] In 1996 he became an associate professor at Cornell University;[4] he then left academia in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation, where he is now a member of the board of directors.[5] In 2003, he joined the faculty at Waterloo, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Tetherless Computing.[6]

Keshav is currently the Editor of Computer Communication Review.[7]

References

  1. ^ Keshav, Srinivasan (1997), An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the Internet, and the Telephone Network, Professional Computing Series, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 9780201634426 .
  2. ^ Review by Jim LeValley (1999), The Internet Protocol Journal 2 (4): 33, retrieved 2010-01-28.
  3. ^ Barbara Aggerholm (March 3, 2008), "Better connections", Waterloo Region Record, http://news.therecord.com/article/317346, retrieved 28 January 2010 .
  4. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae at Cornell University, retrieved 2010-01-28.
  5. ^ Board of Directors, Ensim, retrieved 2010-01-28.
  6. ^ Tetherless computing lab, U. of Waterloo.
  7. ^ Computer Communication Review, ACM SIGCOMM. Accessed August 24, 2010

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