On the Impact of Academic Distributed Systems Research on Industrial Practice

This article is based on the remarks Iwas invited to make at the 2002Workshop on Future Directions in Distributed Computing on the impact of academic distributed systems research on the real world. In this short piece I document the gist of the presentation.

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1. Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, USA

   Michael D. Schroeder (Assistant Director)

Editors and Affiliations

1. Faculté Informatique et Communication, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, IN-Ecublens, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

   André Schiper

2. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Unit 3155, 06269, Storrs, CT, USA

   Alex A. Shvartsman

3. Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, 447/443 Soda Hall, 94704-1776, Berkeley, CA, USA

   Hakim Weatherspoon  & Ben Y. Zhao  & 

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