Butler
Microsoft Research New England
1 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 857-453-6310 Fax: 425-706-7329 Email: blampson@microsoft.com
This web page is at http://butler.lampsons.us as well as at http://research.microsoft.com/lampson
Here are a one-paragraph biography, a short biography and a CV (or as a single Word file here).
Here is a list of publications, with links to abstracts and text.
Here are brief descriptions of systems I have worked on. It is cross-referenced to the publications, and vice versa.
Here are links to the papers that people most often ask for:
Hints and Principles for Computer System Design. This is the 2019 paper.
Hints for Computer System Design. This is the 1983 paper.
Authentication in Distributed Systems: Theory and Practice.
Usable Security—How to Get It
Designing a Global Name Service.
How to Build a Highly Available System Using Consensus.
SDSI: A Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure.
Principles of Computer Systems course at MIT.