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Doug Terry

Doug Terry
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
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Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
1065 La Avenida
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: (650) 693-2651
E-mail: terry AT microsoft DOT com

Background

Doug Terry is a Principal Researcher in the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Lab. His main research interests are in the design and implementation of novel distributed systems. Prior to joining Microsoft, Doug was the founder and CTO of Cogenia and chief scientist of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory, where he helped pioneer the notion of ubiquitous computing and led a number of research projects on weakly consistent distributed systems. He has published papers on a variety of topics including epidemic algorithms, collaborative filtering, continuous queries, active documents, the Etherphone system, and the Bayou replicated database, and he wrote a Synthesis Lecture on "Replicated Data Management for Mobile Computing." Doug has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U. C. Berkeley, where he worked on Berkeley UNIX, developed the first version of the BIND DNS server, and occasionally teaches courses. He earned a B.A. in Computer Science from UCSD.  He is a member of the ACM Council and a Fellow of the ACM.

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