Bruce Maggs
Encyclopedia
Bruce MacDowell Maggs is a former computer science
professor at Carnegie Mellon University
, currently teaching at Duke University
, and Vice President of Research for Akamai Technologies
. He specializes in computer systems and network theory research.
, an early multiplayer online game developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1970s.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
, currently teaching at Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, and Vice President of Research for Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton...
. He specializes in computer systems and network theory research.
Personal life
Maggs is a co-creator of AvatarAvatar (computer game)
Avatar is an early graphics-based multi-user highly interactive role-playing computer game, created on the University of Illinois' Control Data Corporation PLATO system in the late 1970s. It has graphics for navigating through a dungeon, and chat style text for player status and communication with...
, an early multiplayer online game developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1970s.
External links
- An Interview with Bruce Maggs, vice-president for R&D at Akamai Tech - Mihai Budiu, Netreport, March 2001