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 and went on to pursue graduate studies in Computer Science at the University of Washington, where he obtained his M.S. in 1988 and Ph.D. in June 1992. His research interests primarily focus on issues related to the scalability of large distributed systems. He proposed the Virtual System Model, a scalable approach for organizing extensive systems, and is the author of the Prospero Directory Service, a prototype directory service model that organizes data from distributed Internet file systems into a coherent whole. Through the implementation of the Virtual System Model, he has managed resources in distributed systems effectively, leading to the development of the Prospero Resource Manager, which serves as the foundation for network computing infrastructure overseeing the scheduling of multi-processor resources.

Research Interests