Gun Sirer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Sirer works on self-organizing systems, which span operating systems, networking and distributed systems. He likes building things, especially systems that have some principled reason for why they should work. His current projects involve peer-to-peer systems, systems support for ad hoc networks, and operating systems.
Sirer's comments are from a panel on Information Technology Entrepreneurship from Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration in April 2010.
Gun Sirer received a B.S.E. from Princeton University and an M.S and Ph.D. from University of Washington.
We were technology driven initially. Back in 1998, I was a fifth year grad student. I had an idea for my thesis. It had to do with managing virtual machines in a large enterprise. So there were a lot of technical challenges at the time. What happened then was we had a new technique that was int...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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