Maarten van Steen Professor of Computer Science (Large-scale Distributed Systems) Director of Education (Informatics Department)

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Calendar

Available PhD position

Prospective foreign students

Publications

• Computer and Network Organization: An Introduction (with Henk Sips)
• Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms 2nd edition (with Andy Tanenbaum).
• Papers & recent techreports (see research tab)
• Inaugural speech (in Dutch), and the slides that came with it.

Projects

• The Network Institute is a recently opened virtual organization, forming a collaboration between Informatics, Economics, and Social Sciences. Virtually all network-related research at the VU has been bundled together.
• Globule is in a sense a successor to Globe, this time explictly addressing worldwide content delivery as part of scalable Internet services.
• Unified Messaging System is all about scalable and secure messaging, independent of the devices you are using and very much unifying existing messaging systems into a single framework.
• GlobeSoul is a project on peer-to-peer issues. The research is gradually getting somewhere. Its page isn't.

Courses

• Graph Theory and Complex Networks / Graven in Grafen
• Distributed systems (BlackBoard may not be working correctly, in which case you can find stuff here.
• ASCI Distributed Systems (A9)

Current PhD Students

• Rena Bakhshi (main supervisor Wan Fokkink)
• Ania Chmielowiec (in a project with Jaap Gordijn and Guillaume Pierre)
• Matt Dobson
• Albana Gaba
• Konrad Iwanicki Sponsored by DevLab
• Vivek Rai (with Sandjai Bhulai)
• Guido Urdaneta (with Guillaume Pierre)
• Jan Mark Wams
• In collaboration with Tsinghua University's School of Software (Chi-Hung Chi):
  • Wei Zhou (with Guillaume Pierre)
  • Dejun Jiang (with Guillaume Pierre)

Co-researchers in my group

• Guillaume Pierre (assistant professor)
• Spyros Voulgaris (assistant professor)
• Daniela Gavidia (postdoc)
• Jeff Napper (postdoc)
• Jan Sacha (postdoc)
• Corina Stratan (postdoc)
• Arno Bakker (scientific programmer)
• Jeff Rose (visiting PhD student)

Former PhD Students

• Daniela Gavidia (2009)
• Pawel Garbacki (with Dick Epema, 2008)
• Swaminathan Sivasubramanian (with Guillaume Pierre, 2007)
• Michal Szymaniak (with Guillaume Pierre, 2007)
• Spyros Voulgaris (2006)
• Giovanni Russello (with Michel Chaudron, 2005)
• Elth Ogston (with Frances Brazier, 2005)
• Ihor Kuz (with Henk Sips, 2003)
• Gerco Ballintijn (with Andy Tanenbaum, 2003)
• Arno Bakker (with Andy Tanenbaum, 2002)
• Philip Homburg (with Andy Tanenbaum, 2001)
• Edwin de Jong (with Frans Peters, 1992)
• Wim Stut (with Ab Bakker, 1992)

Some professional activities

• Consultant for Philips Research Laboratories.
• Chair of the Program Board Computer Science of the Lorentz Center
• Chair of the ASCI board
• Member of the editorial board for IEEE Internet Computing
• Member of the editorial board for Computer Networks

And a couple of other things...recent

• PC chair (with Ben Zhao)P2P 2010
• PC member NOSSDAV 2010
• PC member IPTPS 2010
• PC member PDMC 2009
• PC member Autonomics 2009
• PC member OPODIS 2009

A device you don't understand,
is not by definition intelligent

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