Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (7th Edition) – PDF

About The Author

James Kurose

Dr. James (Jim) Kurose is a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently on leave from the University of Massachusetts, serving as an Assistant Director at the US National Science Foundation, where he leads the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Jim has received a number of recognitions for his educational activities including Outstanding Teacher Awards from the National Technological University (8 times), the University of Massachusetts, and the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools. He received the IEEE Taylor Booth Education Medal and was recognized for his leadership of Massachusetts’ Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative. Jim has been the recipient of an IBM Faculty Development Award, a GE Fellowship, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship.

Dr. James is a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Communications and of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has been active in the program committees for ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Infocom, ACM Internet Measurement Conference, and ACM SIGMETRICS for a number of years and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for those conferences. Dr. Kurose is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. Jim's research interests include network protocols and architecture, sensor networks, network measurement, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.

 

Keith Ross

Dr. Keith Ross is the Dean of Engineering and Computer Science at NYU Shanghai and the Leonard J. Shustek Chair Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at NYU. Previously he was at University of Pennsylvania (13 years), Eurecom Institute (5 years) and Polytechnic University (10 years). Ross received a B.S.E.E from Tufts University, a M.S.E.E. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering from The University of Michigan. Dr. Keith Ross is also the co-founder and original CEO of Wimba, which develops on-line multimedia applications for e-learning and was acquired by Blackboard in 2010.

Professor Keith’s research interests are in security and privacy, peer-to-peer networking, social networks, Internet measurement, content distribution networks, video streaming, and stochastic modeling. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, recipient of the Infocom 2009 Best Paper Award, and recipient of 2011 and 2008 Best Paper Awards for Multimedia Communications (awarded by IEEE Communications Society). Dr. Ross has served on numerous journal editorial boards and conference program committees, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNext, and ACM Internet Measurement Conference. He also has served as an advisor to the Federal Trade Commission on P2P file sharing.