Professor, Computer Science Division
Founder of the Federal Search Foundation, which built FirstGov (now USA.gov), the portal for the US government.
Formerly, Founder and Chief Scientist of Inktomi Corporation, now part of Yahoo!

Office Hours for Fall 2011: Wed 1-2 (417 Sutardja Dai Hall), plus other times via e-mail

Classes

Fall 2011 : CS262a: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems

Spring 2010, 2011: Cellphones as a Computing Platform
Fall 2009 : CS262a: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Spring 2009: CS169: Software Engineering
Fall 2008: CS262a: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Spring 2008: CS294-35: Cellphones as a Computing Platform
Spring 2008: CS262A
Spring 2006: CS262B
Spring 2005: CS169: Software Engineering
Fall 2004: CS262a: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Spring 2004: CS262b: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems
Fall 2003: CS294-12: ICT for Developing Regions (with Richard Newton, Tom Kalil and CMU)

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Research

Publications
My primary research interests include technology for developing regions, programming languauge support for concurrency, Internet systems, and databases. Current Projects:

• TIER: Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions
  Video of my BEARS talk (a good introduction to TIER, about 25 minutes)

• Ivy: An extension for C with better safety properties that works with legacy C code

Past Projects

• NEST: Network Embedded Systems Technology
• The Ninja Project on Internet-Scale Services
• Internet security: ISAAC , which led to the PhDs of David Wagner, Ian Goldberg and Nikita Borisov.
• Mobile Computing: Daedalus and Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN)
• Cluster Computing: The Berkeley NOW Project
• InfoPad

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Graduate Students:

• Yahel Ben-David
• Shaddi Hasan
• Kurtis Heimerl
• Kevin Klues
• Jeremy Rahe
• Barret Rhoden
• David Zhu
  

Former PhD Advisees

• Zach Anderson, Post-Doc at ETH Zurich
• Nikita Borisov , now a professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Yatin Chawathe, now at Google
• Mike Chen, now a professor at the National Taiwanese Universitiy (NTU)
• Mike Demmer, now at Riverbed
• Bowei Du, was at Aster Data
• Armando Fox , now a professor at Berkeley
• Paul Gauthier, co-founder of Inktomi, now at a Groupon
• Steve Gribble , now a professor at the University of Washington
• Ian Goldberg, now a professor at Waterloo
• Barbara Hohlt, now at Intel
• RJ Honicky, now at Tarana Wireless
• Bill McCloskey, now at Mozilla
• Sergui Nedevschi, currently at Tarana Wireless
• Rabin Patra currently at Tarana Wireless
• Rusty Sears, now at Yahoo! Research
• Sonesh Surana, now at Solar Semiconductor
• Rob von Behren, now at Google
• David Wagner, now a professor at UC Berkeley
• Matt Welsh, now a professor at Harvard (co-advised with David Culler)
• Feng Zhou, now at NetEase (1B+ page view/day Chinese Internet company)

Tier Advisees

• Melissa Ho
• Joyojeet Pal, now at University of Washington
• Renee Kuriyan, now a Intel People & Practices Group
• Jennifer Bussell, now at the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville
• Lakshmi Subramanian, now at NYU

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Awards

ACM Infosys Foundation Award, 2009
Member, National Academy of Engineering
SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, 2009
Global Leader for Tomorrow for the World Economic Forum
ACM Fellow
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

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Personal

• Photography

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Documents:

• Short bio
• Press photo

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brewer@cs.berkeley.edu

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