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Andrew Birrell

PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
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For the past 35 years or so, I’ve been doing systems research in the general areas of operating systems and distributed systems, with occasional excursions into security, end-user applications, and one physical gadget (the PJB). For historical details, see the biography and publication list on my personal web site (which also contains a large pile of other stuff, mostly unrelated to computer science).

I’m currently working mostly on concurrency, in the context of our Automatic Mutual Exclusion project. I’m also investigating the wonderful world of spam, botnets and related malware. Previously at Microsoft, since coming here in 2001, I’ve worked on DryadSingularity security, Desktop on a Keychain, LBOW (unpublished) and Penny Black.

My work email is b@m, where b=birrell and m=microsoft.com; my personal email is a@b.org, where a=andrew and b=birrell.

Publications Since Joining Microsoft