Who am I?

Christopher Small

email:   chris@dogfish.org
Erdös #: four (Erdös - Mario Szegedy - Yossi Matias - Liddy Shriver (R.I.P.) - me)

Current Project (last updated April 2006)

  • Working at BBN Technologies in the Internetworking Research Group.
  • Herding catsOrganizing the invited talks for the USENIX 2006 Advanced Technical Conference
  • Riding herd on twin four-year-old boys.
  • Finding enough books for my nine-year-old daughter to read.
  • Fixing up my house in Cambridge, MA.
  • Recent Projects

  • Working at Sun Microsystems Labs on a peta-scale supercomputer.
  • Teaching graduate operating systems at Harvard, fall 2001.
  • Taking care of my newborn twin boys, Isaac and Nathaniel. Trying to teach them to play nice together.
  • Program committee member, USENIX '02.
  • Java for throughput computing. Trying to teach Java to scale well..
  • Steering committee member, ReX, the Research Exchange Program.

    Other Stuff

  • Papers
  • Fun stuff
  • VINO, the OS I helped work on and develop grad school.
  • Pebble, the OS I helped design and implement at Bell Labs.
  • 1st-line Equipment, a damn fine place to buy an espresso machine or grinder. I bought a Rancilio Silvia from them, loved it, went back and bought a second one (for the office) and two Rocky grinders to go with them.
  • Beth Stover, illustrator, designer of the dogfish.
  • Resorcerer, resource editor for the Mac.
  • Moreira Consulting.


    Miserable Failure
    Last modified 10 April 2003