Vern Paxson

Information

• Phone: +1 510 666 2882
• Email: vern@icir.org / vern@cs.berkeley.edu
• Papers and slides from various presentations.
• I recently joined the EECS Department of UC Berkeley, though haven't yet gotten my Web presence put together there.
• At UCB I am teaching Network Security this semester. (Last semester I taught Introduction to Communication Networks.)

Biography

I received my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and have been (and continue to be) a staff scientist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Network Research Group for many years. I began at the ICIR group of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in 1999.

• My main active research projects are Bro, CCIED (the NSF-sponsored Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses, a joint effort with UC San Diego), DETER, and PREDICT. Much of the current emphasis of CCIED is on Internet worms, including our network telescope project. A significant milestone with our PREDICT efforts is the public release of enterprise header traces: anonymized packet headers of traffic recorded inside LBNL.
• My professional activities include:
  Program co-chair for HotNets 2007; and
  Program committee member for USENIX Security 2007, HotBots '07, RAID 2007, WOOT '07, and IEEE Security and Privacy 2008.
• Some former activities:
  Chair of the IRTF, 2001-2005;
  Co-founder and steering committee member for the Internet Measurement Conference 2001-2004;
  Program co-chair of the 2005 and 2006 IEEE Symposia on Security and Privacy;
  Program chair of the 2nd Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM);
  Invited talks co-chair for USENIX Security 2004;
  Organizer, 2003 DIMACS Workshop on Large-Scale Internet Attacks (some viewgraphs from the workshop);
  Program chair for USENIX Security 2003;
  Program co-chair for SIGCOMM 2002;
  Editorial board, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2000-2004;
  Member of the IESG 1998-2000.

• glish, a language, interpreter, and C++ class library for building loosely-coupled distributed systems.
• flex, a lex replacement.
• My winning entry in the 1992 IOCCC contest.
• My most excellent Star Trek: The Next Generation script (PDF) that Paramount was too stupid to buy.
• The Internet Traffic Archive.