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Professor Eric A. Brewer 623 Soda Hall University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 (510) 642-8143 FAX: (510) 642-5775 brewer@cs.berkeley.edu

Professor, Computer Science Division

On partial leave as Lab Director for Intel Research Berkeley

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Global Leader for Tomorrow for the World Economic Forum
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!

Classes

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)

Office Hours: Spring 2008, TBD, but also by appointment

Research

Publications

My primary research interests include Internet systems, developing regions, sensor networks and security.

• 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 and Ian Goldberg.
• Mobile Computing: Daedalus  and Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN)
  
• Cluster Computing: The Berkeley NOW Project
• InfoPad

Graduate Students:

• Zach Anderson
• Ilya Bagrak
• Mike Demmer
• Bowei Du
• Kurtis Heimerl
• Bill McCloskey
• Sergui Nedevschi
  
• Rabin Patra
• Rusty Sears
  

Alumni

• Nikita Borisov , now a professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  
• Yatin Chawathe, now at Google
  
• Mike Chen,  now at Intel Research Seattle
  
• Armando Fox , now a professor at Stanford
• Barbara Hohlt,  new PhD!!
  
• Paul Gauthier, co-founder of Inktomi, now at UW
  
• Steve Gribble , now a professor at the University of Washington
  
• Ian Goldberg, now a professor at Waterloo
  
• 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)
  

Personal

• Photography

Documents:

• Short bio
• Press photo