Bryan Ford's Work

Current Work

See Decentralized and Distributed Systems (DeDiS) at Yale.

Selected Past Projects

• Unmanaged Internet Architecture, a system for naming and connecting mobile devices globally.
• Structured Stream Transport, a new transport protocol for modern Internet applications.
• VX32, a safe application-level execution environment for native x86 code.
• VXA, a future-proof archiver for compressed data.
• IETF BEHAVE group, setting standards for network address translators and NAT traversal.
• Packrat Parsing, a simple but powerful memoization-based parsing scheme.
• Flux OSKit, a component toolkit for building specialized operating systems.
• Fluke, a microkernel designed around recursive virtual machines.

Research Information

• Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
• Publications
• Institutional affiliations:
  • Parallel & Distributed Operating Systems (PDOS) Group (current),
    Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Flux Research Group,
    School of Computing, University of Utah.
• Publication statistics: (according to Google Scholar, April 2008)
  • h-index: 19
    
  • g-index: 37

Other Past Work

• Phobos, now SonicWall, a networking hardware startup.
• Hewlett-Packard's now-defunct cardiology unit.
• Early projects I did on my own.