Who am I?

Christopher Small

email:   chris@dogfish.org
Erdös #: four (Erdös - Mario Szegedy - Yossi Matias - Liddy Shriver (R.I.P.) - me)
Bacon #: three (Kevin Bacon - Kyra Sedgwick - Keith Smith - me)

Current Projects (last updated May 2011)

  • Working at NetApp in the Advanced Technology Group.
  • Being parent to twin boys and teenage girl.
  • Finding enough books for my daughter to read.
  • Fixing up my house in Cambridge, MA. Learning how to grow vegetables.
  • Past Projects

  • BBN Technologies (now Raytheon) in the Networking Research Group
  • Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) Labs.
  • Osprey Partners (now Bank of America)
  • Bell Labs Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel)
  • Harvard Division of Applied Sciences (now School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) grad student
  • Software Options (now no more)
  • Siemens Nixdorf (now no more)
  • Beyond, Inc. (temporarily Banyan Inc,, now no more)
  • Microsoft (still Microsoft)
  • ON Technology (now no more)
  • Ontologic (now no more)
  • ... sense a patern here?

  • Organizing the invited talks for the USENIX 2006 Annual Technical Conference
  • Program committee member, USENIX 2002 Annual Technical Conference.
  • Teaching graduate operating systems at Harvard, fall 2001.
  • Program committee member, COOTS '01
  • Program chair of USENIX General Technical Conference, 2000 (San Diego)
  • Program committee member, USENIX 1999 Annual Technical Conference
  • Program committee member, USENIX 1996 Annual Technical Conference

  • Taking care of my newborn twin boys, Isaac and Nathaniel. Trying to teach them to play nice together.
  • 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.


    Miserable Failure
    Last modified May 2011