Prof. Robert Tappan Morris

Profesor Morris is building data networking infrastructure that's easy to configure and control. The Click toolkit, for example, brings a new level of flexibility to network configuration by viewing routers as compositions of packet processing modules. Roofnet is a self-configuring wireless mesh network for Internet access, spread out over a few dozen nodes in Cambridge. The Resilient Overlay Networks project allows end-system control over Internet routing, so that applications can choose their own tradeoffs among qualities such as delay, bandwidth, and reliability. Chord and DHash provide a peer-to-peer distributed data lookup and storage system, which Ivy uses to build a shared read/write file system, and Pastwatch uses to provide serverless CVS-like version control.