Dan R. K. Ports

Programming Methodology Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 32 Vassar St, room 32-G908 Cambridge, MA 02139 drkp@mit.edu http://drkp.net/ PGP key (fingerprint BF00 1851 91E2 BA1D 63FC 7919 019B 6A83 08C0 A859)

I am a graduate student at MIT who is largely incapable of creating a web page.

Currently, I am a Ph.D. student in Prof. Barbara Liskov's Programming Methodology Group at MIT CSAIL, which, of course, does very little at all related to programming methodology. Previously, I finished a M.Eng. (Feb. 2007) with Prof. David Karger, working on Arpeggio, a peer-to-peer indexing system based on the Chord distributed hash table. Before that, I was an undergrad, also at MIT, where I wound up with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics (2005).

Generally speaking, I'm interested in issues related to distributed systems and operating system: how to construct scalable, fault-tolerant, secure systems. At some point a list of projects that I've worked on will appear here. In the meantime, please refer to my publications list below.

A list of my publications is available, either in shiny Web 2.0 form, or as a flat list.