A Perspective on Transitioning Reserach to an Open Source Product

Vern Paxson is a Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and also has affiliations with the International Computer Science Institute and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on network measurement and analysis, high-performance monitoring of Internet traffic to detect malicious activity, and addressing the threat of botnets and the underground economy that they fuel. He is an ACM Fellow, and recipient of the 2008 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award and the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM Award for his work on Internet measurement.