Frans Kaashoek

Marinus Frans Kaashoek (* 1965 in Leiden ) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Kaashoek studied at the Free University of Amsterdam , where he received his doctorate in 1992 under Andrew Tanenbaum (Group communication in distributed computer systems). He has been a member of CSAIL at MIT since 1993 and is a Charles Piper Professor at MIT.

He deals with operating systems ( Exokernel with his PhD student Dawson Engler ), computer networks, programming languages, compilers and computer architecture for distributed, mobile and parallel systems.

In 2010 he received the ACM Prize in Computing (ACM Infosys Award) for his revolutionary contributions to the structuring, robustness, scalability and security of software systems that enabled efficient, mobile and widely distributed applications and created important new research directions (laudation). In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), in 2006 a member of the National Academy of Engineering and 2012 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2001 he received the Mark Weiser Award .

In 1998 he co-founded Sightpath Inc. (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000 ) and co-founded Mazu Networks Inc. (acquired by Riverbed Technology in 2009 ).

His PhD students include Eddie Kohler , David Mazières , Dawson Engler, and Sanjay Ghemawat .

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with Jerome H. Saltzer: Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction, Morgan Kaufman 2009

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SURNAME	Kaashoek, Frans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kaashoek, Marinus Frans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Suffer