Dr. Clifford Neuman

Biography

Clifford Neuman is a Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California and holds a research faculty appointment in the Computer Science Department. He received his S.B. degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 1985. After completion, he spent a year working as the principal designer for MIT's Project Athena and the Kerberos authentication system. Neuman began his graduate studies in the Computer Science Department of the University of Washington in the fall of 1986, where he received his M.S. degree in 1988 and his Ph.D. in June 1992. His research interests focus on issues related to the scalability of large distributed systems. He proposed the Virtual System Model, a scalable approach to organizing large systems, and is the author of the Prospero Directory Service, a prototype directory service based on this model. The Prospero Directory Service organizes data within distributed Internet file systems into a coherent whole, and Neuman has applied the Virtual System Model to managing resources in distributed systems. His work includes the development of the Prospero Resource Manager, which serves as the basis for network computing infrastructures that schedule multi-processor resources in a broader context.

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