Professor Eric A. Brewer

417 Sutardja Dai Hall
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1758
(510) 642-8143
FAX: (510) 642-5775
brewer@cs.berkeley.edu

Professor, Computer Science Division
Founder of the Federal Search Foundation, which built FirstGov (now USA.gov), the portal for the US government.
Formerly, Founder and Chief Scientist of Inktomi Corporation, now part of Yahoo!

Office Hours for Fall 2011: Wed 1-2 (417 Sutardja Dai Hall), plus other times via e-mail

Classes

Fall 2011 : CS262a: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems

Spring 2010, 2011: Cellphones as a Computing Platform
Fall 2009 : CS262a: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Spring 2009: CS169: Software Engineering
Fall 2008: CS262a: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Spring 2008: CS294-35: Cellphones as a Computing Platform
Spring 2008: CS262A
Spring 2006: CS262B
Spring 2005: CS169: Software Engineering
Fall 2004: CS262a: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Spring 2004: CS262b: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Fall 2003: CS294-12: ICT for Developing Regions (with Richard Newton, Tom Kalil and CMU)

Research

Publications
My primary research interests include technology for developing regions, programming languauge support for concurrency, Internet systems, and databases. Current Projects:

TIER: Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions
Video of my BEARS talk (a good introduction to TIER, about 25 minutes)

Ivy: An extension for C with better safety properties that works with legacy C code

Past Projects

NEST: Network Embedded Systems Technology
The Ninja Project on Internet-Scale Services
Internet security: ISAAC , which led to the PhDs of David Wagner, Ian Goldberg and Nikita Borisov.
Mobile Computing: Daedalus and Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN)
Cluster Computing: The Berkeley NOW Project
InfoPad

Graduate Students:

Yahel Ben-David
Shaddi Hasan
Kurtis Heimerl
Kevin Klues
Jeremy Rahe
Barret Rhoden
David Zhu

Former PhD Advisees

Zach Anderson, Post-Doc at ETH Zurich
Nikita Borisov , now a professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Yatin Chawathe, now at Google
Mike Chen, now a professor at the National Taiwanese Universitiy (NTU)
Mike Demmer, now at Riverbed
Bowei Du, was at Aster Data
Armando Fox , now a professor at Berkeley
Paul Gauthier, co-founder of Inktomi, now at a Groupon
Steve Gribble , now a professor at the University of Washington
Ian Goldberg, now a professor at Waterloo
Barbara Hohlt, now at Intel
RJ Honicky, now at Tarana Wireless
Bill McCloskey, now at Mozilla
Sergui Nedevschi, currently at Tarana Wireless
Rabin Patra currently at Tarana Wireless
Rusty Sears, now at Yahoo! Research
Sonesh Surana, now at Solar Semiconductor
Rob von Behren, now at Google
David Wagner, now a professor at UC Berkeley
Matt Welsh, now a professor at Harvard (co-advised with David Culler)
Feng Zhou, now at NetEase (1B+ page view/day Chinese Internet company)

Tier Advisees

Melissa Ho
Joyojeet Pal, now at University of Washington
Renee Kuriyan, now a Intel People & Practices Group
Jennifer Bussell, now at the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville
Lakshmi Subramanian, now at NYU

Awards

ACM Infosys Foundation Award, 2009
Member, National Academy of Engineering
SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, 2009
Global Leader for Tomorrow for the World Economic Forum
ACM Fellow
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

Personal

Photography

Documents:

brewer@cs.berkeley.edu

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