Illustration by Rob Barber

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

Associate Professor, Computer Science Division
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Inktomi Corporation
Global Leader for Tomorrow for the World Economic Forum
Founder of the Federal Search Foundation, which built FirstGov, the portal for the US government.

Recent Info

Classes

Office Hours: W 11-12 and F 10:30-11:30

Research

My primary research interests include parallel systems, internet services, network software, security, and mobile computing.

Mobile Computing

Randy Katz and I ran a mobile computing project, Daedalus, to look at handoff across overlay networks and applications that can adapt to changing network conditions. This project included the Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN) .

Other Past Projects

• Internet security: ISAAC , which led to the PhDs of David Wagner and Ian Goldberg.
• Cluster Computing: The Berkeley NOW Project
• InfoPad

Graduate Students:

• Nikita Borisov
  
• Mike Chen
  
• Josh MacDonald
  
• Rob von Behren
  

Alumni

• Armando Fox , now a professor at Stanford
  
• Paul Gauthier, co-founder of Inktomi
  
• Steve Gribble , now a professor at the University of Washington
  
• Ian Goldberg, now Chief Scientist at Zero-Knowledge Systems
  
• David Wagner, now a professor at UC Berkeley
  
• Yatin Chawathe, now at AT&T; Research
  

Personal

• Some of my photographs

Documents:

• Short bio
• Publications