Michael D. Schroeder

Michael David Schroeder (* 1945 in Richland (Washington) ) is an American computer scientist.

Schroeder studied at Washington State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his doctorate in 1973 under Jerome Saltzer ( Cooperation of Mutually Suspicious Subsystems in a Computer Utility ). At MIT, he was involved in the development of multics . He was at the Xerox Parc Research Laboratory (most recently as Director of the Computer Systems Lab), at the Systems Research Center of DEC and Compaq, where he became Assistant Director, and was co-founder of Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley Lab in 2001 and its Assistant Director until its dissolution 2014.

He dealt with operating systems, distributed systems (Grapevine and the Topaz operating system) and computer security. He and Roger Needham wrote the Needham-Schroeder Protocol (1978). He developed the file system for the Cedar programming language, an extension of Mesa in Xerox Parc, Autonet (a self-configuring high-speed LAN ) and Pachyderm (a web-based e-mail system).

In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery , in 2006 he received the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovations Award and in 2007 the National Computer Systems Security Award from NIST and NSA.

He is considered the authority on the US landscape painter Gilbert Munger (1837-1903), published a catalog raisonné of his works on the web and wrote a book about him.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael D. Schroeder in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Andrew Birrell, Roy Levin, Roger Needham, Michael D. Schroeder, Grapevine: An exercise in distributed computing, Communications of the ACM, Volume 25, April 1982
3. ↑ Schroeder, J. Gray Sweeney, Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction, Afton Historical Society Press, 2003.