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Timothy Roscoe (Mothy) Professor, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich
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[ Biography ] [ Teaching ] [ Publications ] [ Program committees ]
Note: My name is Timothy, or Mothy, but not Tim. Why would it be Tim?
I'm a systems research person: I build stuff.
I'm part of the ETH Zürich Computer Science Department's Systems Group. My main research areas are operating systems, distributed systems, and networking, with some critical theory on the side.
I have two main research interests right now:
- How to build operating systems that scale and effectively exploit computing hardware with complex interconnects and hundreds of hetergeneous processing cores.
- How to design, build, deploy, and manage widely distributed applications over heterogeneous, dynamically acquired resources.
I also like collaboration. As well as my fellow conspirators in the Systems Group, I've been lucky enough to work with lots of wonderfully smart people, including recently Tom Anderson, Paul Barham, Andrew Baumann, Richard Black, Jon Crowcroft, Peter Druschel, Kevin Elphinstone, Tim Harris, Gernot Heiser, Joe M. Hellerstein, Rebecca Isaacs, Ihor Kuz, Petros Maniatis, Jeff Mogul, Sue Moon, Larry Peterson, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Sean Rhea, Oriana Riva, Scott Shenker, Livio Soares, Patrick Stuedi, Ion Stoica, and David Wetherall.
Teaching
We're always looking for talented research students who like hacking on large systems. We have a number of projects available in networking, distributed systems, and OS design and implementation. See the Systems Group web pages for more details.
If you're thinking of applying for a position in the group:
- If you're interested in a postdoctoral position, following these instructions.
- If you're interested in pursuing a PhD in the group, follow the same instructions. Note that ETH Zurich generally requires you to already have a Masters degree. You may also find Steven Hand's excellent talk on Doing a Systems PhD useful (for here or elsewhere).
- If you're interested in a Masters degree, admissions are handled centrally in the department. See here for more information, including how to apply. If you specifically want to work with me for your Masters thesis, I suggest selecting the "Distributed Systems" track.
- If you want to simply do an internship, bear in mind that I only take interns under exceptional circumstances. Also, the number of applications I receive for internships is such that I cannot respond to most of them.
I generally teaching the following courses at ETHZ; details can be found on the Systems Group course page:
- Computer Architecture and Systems Programming
- Operating Systems and Networks
- Advanced Operating Systems
- Advanced Computer Networks
Biography
[short bio], [C.V. in A4], [C.V. in US letter]
Mothy started as a Professor in the Institute for Pervasive Computing at ETH Zürich in January 2007. Prior to that he was a Principal Researcher at Intel Research's Berkeley Lab, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and a visiting researcher in the ERTOS program at National ICT Australia. At Berkeley he helped to design and build (among other things) the PlanetLab platform for wide-area distributed systems, and the P2 Declarative Networking engine.
He joined the Intel Berkeley Lab from Sprint Labs, where he worked for 3.5 years in the IP and Internetworking, Systems, and Security groups, and was also a visiting Fellow in the Computer Science Department of the University of California at Berkeley, mainly with the Sahara and Oceanstore projects.
He received a PhD from the University of Cambridge Computer
Laboratory in 1995, where he was a designer and builder of the
Nemesis
multiservice operating system, as well as working on the Pandora
multimedia system and the Wanda microkernel. He designed and built
the memory management system and, with Simon Crosby, the object
request broker used in the first coffee machine on the World Wide Web.
After Cambridge he was hired for a three-year spell as head of
research at a small, ill-fated software company in North Carolina
called Persimmon IT, where he led and managed a team designing and
building a web-based collaboration toolkit using CORBA, XML, Java, and
C++.
Publications
Full list in [HTML] or [BibTEX]
At the instigation of Rebecca Isaacs, I wrote a document for the SOSP 2007 Shadow PC entitled "Writing reviews for systems conferences". You can find it here: [PDF].
Some selected recent published papers:
Program Committees
- USENIX/ACM Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2012.
- 7th ACM Eurosys Conference, 2012.
- EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award, 2012.
- ACM SIGCOMM, 2011.
- USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2010. Program co-chair
- 7th USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2010.
- 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) (SOSP 2009), 2009.
- 4th ACM Eurosys Conference, 2009.
- 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XII) (HotOS XII), 2009.
- 5th USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2008.
- USENIX Technical Conference, 2008.
- ACM Workshop on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), 2007.
- 7th IEEE Conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems (P2P), 2007.
- USENIX Technical Conference, 2007.
- 2nd ACM Eurosys Conference, 2007.
- 3rd ACM SIGMOD/VLDB Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2007.
- 3rd USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2006. Program co-chair
- 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), 2006.
- Second USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS), 2005.
- 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2005. "Tech Blitz" committee
- USENIX Technical Conference, 2005.
- 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), 2005.
- International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), 2004.
- First USENIX Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS), 2004. Program co-chair
- USENIX/ACM Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2004.
- USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2004.
- 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2004. applications track
- 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2004. Multimedia Systems track
- ACM Multimedia, 2003. Systems track
- OPENARCH, 2003.
- USENIX Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2002.
- Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems / Protocols for Multimedia Systems (IDMS/PROMS), 2002.
- ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), 2002.
- 9th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2001.
- Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS), 2001.
- ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), 2001.
- USENIX Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2000.
- 10th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), 2000.
- ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), 2000.
- ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), 1999.
- ACM Multimedia, 1998.
- ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), 1998. Program co-chair
- SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), 1997.