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.  He is currently working on Community Information Management, including new technology in support of mobile users and replication protocols for distributed databases.  Prior to joining Microsoft, Doug was the founder and CTO of Cogenia and chief scientist of Xerox PARCs 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.  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 as an adjunct faculty member.   He earned a B.A. in Computer Science from UCSD.
 

Activities

• Taught Distributed Systems at U. C. Berkeley in Spring 2007 (with Prof. Scott Shenker).
• Served on the program committee for the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems held June 25-29, 2007 in Toronto, Canada.
• Served on the program committee for the 5th ACM/USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) held June 11-15, 2007 in Puerto Rico .
• Served on the program committee for HotMobile 2007: The 8th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications held February 26-27, 2007 in Tucson, Arizona.
• Served as chair of the selection committee for the Mark Weiser Award, given annually by ACM SIGOPS to an outstanding, young operating systems researcher.  The 2006 award was presented at the 7th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI).
• Served on the program committee for the Twelfth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) held in San Jose on October 22-25, 2006.
• Served on the program committee for the 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA) held at the Semiahmoo Resort in Washington on April 6-7, 2006.
• Served on the program committee for the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 6th International Middleware Conference held in Grenoble, France, November 28-December 2, 2005.
• Taught Distributed Systems course (CS244B) at Stanford University in Spring 2005 and Spring 2006 (with Prof. David Cheriton).
• Served on the program committee for the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB), July 11-13, 2005.
• Served on the program committee for the Third ACM/USENIX International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2005.
• Served on the program committee for the Tenth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS), June 12-15 2005.
• Served on the program committee for the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2004).
• Served as the Program Committee Co-Chair for the Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2004), June 6-9.
• Served on the program committee for the First Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2003), May 5-8, 2003.
• Served on the program committee for the Second Workshop on Industrial Experiences with Systems Software (WIESS '02), December 8, 2002.

Selected Publications

Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance. Proceedings Sixth Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 1987, pages 1-12.

Managing stored voice in the Etherphone system.  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, February 1988, pages 3-27.

Continuous queries over append-only databases.  Proceedings International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), San Diego, California, June 1992, pages 321-330.

Using collaborative filtering to weave an information tapestry.  Communications of the ACM, vol. 35, no. 12, December 1992, pages 61-70.

Session guarantees for weakly consistent replicated data.  Proceedings Third International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Austin, Texas, September 1994, pages 140-149.

Managing update conflicts in Bayou, a weakly connected replicated storage system. Proceedings Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Copper Mountain, Colorado, December 1995, pages 172-183.

Flexible update propagation for weakly consistent replication.  Proceedings Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Saint Malo, France, October 1997, pages 288-301.

Extending document management systems with user-specific active properties.  ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 18, no. 2, April 2000, pages 140-170.

Caching XML Web Services for Mobility.  ACM Queue, vol. 1, no. 3, May 2003, pages 70-78.

Contextual Replication for Mobile Users.  Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB), Sydney, Australia, July 2005, pages 457-463.

Concise Version Vectors in WinFS.  Proceedings 19th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Krakow, Poland, September 2005.

Last updated: 10/12/2007.