Michael Schroeder
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Michael Schroeder is a computer scientist perhaps best-known as the co-inventor of the Needham-Schroeder protocol. He is the assistant managing director of Microsoft Research
Silicon Valley, where he has been since its inception in 2001 when he moved from DEC SRC
. His areas of research include computer security, distributed systems and operating systems. When he was a professor at MIT he was involved in the Multics
project. Some other systems he has built are Grapevine (distributed system), the filesystem of Cedar
, Topaz (distributed OS), Autonet (LAN) and Pachyderm (web based email).
In 2004 he was inducted as a Fellow
of the Association for Computing Machinery
.
In 2006 ACM SIGSAC presented him with the Outstanding Innovations Award "for technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering or understanding the theory and/or development of commercial systems."
In 2007 NIST/NSA gave him the National Computer Systems Security Award. In 2008 ACM SIGOPS chose the paper Grapevine: An Exercise in Distributed Computing, which he coauthored, for a Hall of Fame Award "that recognizes the most influential operating systems papers in the peer-reviewed literature at least ten year old."
Schroeder was born in 1945 in Richland, Washington. He did his undergraduate work at Washington State University and went to graduate school at MIT, obtaining his PhD in 1972.
He is a leading expert on the American landscape painter Gilbert Munger [1837-1903], for whom he authors the Web-based catalogue raisonnée and archive of period documents at http://gilbertmunger.org. With Prof. J. Gray Sweeney of Arizona State University he authored the book Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction (Afton Historical Society Press, 2003).
Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...
Silicon Valley, where he has been since its inception in 2001 when he moved from DEC SRC
DEC Systems Research Center
The Systems Research Center was a research laboratory created by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984, in Palo Alto, California....
. His areas of research include computer security, distributed systems and operating systems. When he was a professor at MIT he was involved in the Multics
Multics
Multics was an influential early time-sharing operating system. The project was started in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
project. Some other systems he has built are Grapevine (distributed system), the filesystem of Cedar
Mesa programming language
Mesa was an innovative programming language developed in the late 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California, United States. The language was named after the mesas of the American Southwest, referring to its design intent to be a "high-level" programming language.Mesa is...
, Topaz (distributed OS), Autonet (LAN) and Pachyderm (web based email).
In 2004 he was inducted as a Fellow
Fellow
A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...
of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
.
In 2006 ACM SIGSAC presented him with the Outstanding Innovations Award "for technical contributions to the field of computer and communication security that have had lasting impact in furthering or understanding the theory and/or development of commercial systems."
In 2007 NIST/NSA gave him the National Computer Systems Security Award. In 2008 ACM SIGOPS chose the paper Grapevine: An Exercise in Distributed Computing, which he coauthored, for a Hall of Fame Award "that recognizes the most influential operating systems papers in the peer-reviewed literature at least ten year old."
Schroeder was born in 1945 in Richland, Washington. He did his undergraduate work at Washington State University and went to graduate school at MIT, obtaining his PhD in 1972.
He is a leading expert on the American landscape painter Gilbert Munger [1837-1903], for whom he authors the Web-based catalogue raisonnée and archive of period documents at http://gilbertmunger.org. With Prof. J. Gray Sweeney of Arizona State University he authored the book Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction (Afton Historical Society Press, 2003).