Ted Wobber
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
e-mail: wobber "at" microsoft.com
phone: (650) 693-2533
mail: 1065 La Avenida, Mountain View, CA, 94043
Ted joined the MSR Silicon Valley Lab from Compaq (DEC) Systems Research Center in 2001. His research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, and security. He is currently working on distributed systems and security issues such as those addressed by the Community Information Management project. He is also investigating the architecture and performance of systems using non-volatile memory, such as solid state disks.
Previous projects have included:
- Singularity: a research operating system focused on dependability
- Keychain: your desktop on a flash-memory card
- Penny Black: economic disincentives to spamming
- VEXE'DD: reliable software extension through virtualization.
Ted's previous work at Digital/Compaq SRC included Pachyderm, a web-based mail agent constructed using a full-text index, and PJB, a portable hard-disk based MP3 player.
Find out more about Ted on his personal site. A full CV is here.
Publications: conferences
- Gokul Soundararajan, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Mahesh Balakrishnan, and Ted Wobber, Griffin: Extending SSD Lifetimes with Disk-Based Write Caches, in FAST 2010: 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (To Appear), USENIX, February 2010
- Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, and Ted Wobber, Fidelity-Aware Replication for Mobile Devices, in Mobisys 2009: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2009
- Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Ted Wobber, Catherine C. Marshall, and Amin Vahdat, Cimbiosys: A platform for content-based partial replication, in 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09), USENIX, April 2009
- Prince Mahajan, Ramakrishna Kotla, Catherine C Marshall, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, and Ted Wobber, Effective and Efficient Compromise Recovery for Weakly Consistent Replication, in EuroSys 2009: Proceedings of the 4th ACM European Conference on Computer systems , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., March 2009
- Nitin Agrawal, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, John D. Davis, Mark Manasse, and Rina Panigrahy, Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance, in Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Technical Conference (USENIX'08), USENIX, June 2008
- Daniel Peek, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Tom L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, and Ted Wobber, Fast Encounter-based Synchronization for Mobile Devices, in Proceedings IEEE International Workshop on Dynamic Virtual Communities, October 2007
- Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Kannan Achan, Eliot Gillum, Moisés Goldszmidt, and Ted Wobber, How Dynamic are IP Addresses, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Kyoto, Japan, August 2007
- Galen Hunt, Chris Hawblitzel, Orion Hodson, James Larus, Bjarne Steensgaard, and Ted Wobber, Sealing OS Processes to Improve Dependability and Safety, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Lisbon, Portugal, March 2007
- Ted Wobber, Aydan Yumerefendi, Martín Abadi, Andrew Birrell, and Daniel R. Simon, Authorizing Applications in Singularity, in Proceedings of the 2007 Eurosys Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Lisbon, Portugal, March 2007
- Martín Abadi, Andrew Birrell, and Ted Wobber, Access Control in a World of Software Diversity, in Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, USENIX, Santa Fe, NM, June 2005
- Galen C. Hunt, James R. Larus, David Tarditi, and Ted Wobber, Broad New OS Research: Challenges and Opportunities, in Proceedings of Tenth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOs), USENIX, June 2005
- Martín Abadi and Ted Wobber, A Logical Account of NGSCB, in Proceedings of Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (Forte '04), Springer-Verlag, Madrid, Spain, September 2004
- Martín Abadi, Andrew D. Birrell, Mike Burrows, Frank Dabek, and Ted Wobber, Bankable Postage for Network Services, in Proceedings of the 8th Asian Computing Science Conference, Springer-Verlag, Mumbai, India, December 2003
- Martín Abadi, Mike Burrows, Mark Manasse, and Ted Wobber, Moderately Hard, Memory-bound Functions, in Proceedings of the 10th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Internet Society, February 2003
- Martin Abadi, Andrew Birrell, Raymie Stata, and Ted Wobber, Secure Web Tunneling, in Proceedings of the 7th International World Wide Web Conference, Elsevier , April 1998
- Leendert van Doorn, Martín Abadi, Mike Burrows, and Edward Wobber, Secure Network Objects, in Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE Computer Society, May 1996
- Andrew Birrell, Greg Nelson, Susan Owicki, and Ted Wobber, Network Objects, in Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., December 1993
- Edward P. Wobber, Martín Abadi, Mike Burrows, and Butler Lampson, Authentication in the Taos Operating System, in Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., December 1993
- Butler Lampson, Martín Abadi, Mike Burrows, and Edward Wobber, Authentication in distributed systems: Theory and Practice, in Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 1991
- Francis J. Prusker and Edward P. Wobber, The Siphon: Managing distant replicated repositories, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on the Management of Replicated Data, IEEE Computer Society, April 1990
- Andrew Birrell, Michael Jones, and Ted Wobber, A Simple and Efficient Implementation for Small Databases, in Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, December 1987
Publications: journals
- Andrew Birrell, Michael Isard, Chuck Thacker, and Ted Wobber, A Design for High-Performance Flash Disks, in Operating Systems Review, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 88-93, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2007
- Martín Abadi, Mike Burrows, Mark Manasse, and Ted Wobber, Moderately Hard, Memory-bound Functions, in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 299-327, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., May 2005
- Kenneth F. Alden and Edward P. Wobber, The AltaVista Tunnel: Using the Internet to extend corporate networks, in Digital Technical Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 5-15, October 1997
- Andrew Birrell, Greg Nelson, Susan Owicki, and Ted Wobber, Network Objects, in Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 87–130, Wiley, December 1995
- Edward Wobber, Martín Abadi, Mike Burrows, and Butler Lampson, Authentication in the Taos Operating System, in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 3-32, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 1994
- Butler Lampson, Martín Abadi, Michael Burrows, and Edward Wobber, Authentication in Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice, in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 265-310, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 1992
Publications: other
- Ted Wobber, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, and Douglas B. Terry, Policy-based Access Control for Peer-to-Peer Replication, no. MSR-TR-2009-15, 24 July 2009
- Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Thomas Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry, Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Ted Wobber, Cathy Marshall, and Amin Vahdat, Cimbiosys: A platform for content-based partial replication, no. MSR-TR-2008-116, August 2008
- Muthukarrupan Annamalai, Andrew Birrell, Dennis Fetterly, and Ted Wobber, Implementing Portable Desktops: a New Option and Comparisons, no. TR-2006-151, October 2006
- Galen C. Hunt, Mark Aiken, Paul Barham, Manuel Fahndrich, Chris Hawblitzel, Orion Hodson, James R. Larus, Steven Levi, Nick Murphy, Bjarne Steensgaard, David Tarditi, Ted Wobber, and Brian D. Zill, Sealing OS Processes to Improve Dependability and Security, no. MSR-TR-2006-51, April 2006
- Galen Hunt, James R. Larus, Martin Abadi, Mark Aiken, Paul Barham, Manuel Fahndrich, Chris Hawblitzel, Orion Hodson, Steven Levi, Nick Murphy, Bjarne Steensgaard, David Tarditi, Ted Wobber, and Brian D. Zill, An Overview of the Singularity Project, no. MSR-TR-2005-135, October 2005
- Ulfar Erlingsson, Tom Roeder, and Ted Wobber, Virtual Environments for Unreliable Extensions, no. MSR-TR-2005-82, June 2005
- Andrew Birrell, Ted Wobber, and et al, Personal Jukebox (PJB), October 2000
- Andrew Birrell, Ted Wobber, and et al, Personal Jukebox (PJB) Web Site, 2000
- Andrew Birrell, Mike Schroeder, Raymie Stata, and Ted Wobber, Pachyderm: a Strategy for Working on the Web, October 1997
- Andrew Birrell, Mike Schroeder, Raymie Stata, and Ted Wobber, Pachyderm Web Site, 1997
- Andrew Birrell, David Evers, Greg Nelson, Sue Owicki, and Ted Wobber, Distributed Garbage Collection for Network Objects, no. 116, December 1993
