Author Archives: Larry Peterson

About Larry Peterson

As Chief Scientist, Larry Peterson provides technical leadership and expertise for research and development projects. He is also the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he served as Chairman of the Computer Science Department from 2003-2009. He also serves as Director of the PlanetLab Consortium, a collection of academic, industrial, and government institutions cooperating to design and evaluate next-generation network services and architectures. Larry has served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, has been on the Editorial Board for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the IEEE Journal on Select Areas in Communication and is the co-author of the best selling networking textbook Computer Networks: A Systems Approach. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and the 2010 recipient of the IEEE Kobayahi Computer and Communication Award. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1985.