Azer Bestavros
Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Arts & Sciences
Boston University
 

Office: 111 Cummington Street, MCS-276, Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617.353.9726 / Fax: 617.353.6457 / Email: best @bu.edu

 

TEACHING
[CS109] [CS350] [CS697] [DWE]

RESEARCH
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PROFESSIONAL
[Vita]
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PERSONAL
 [Coptic] [Egypt]

(c) Azer Bestavros

 
Recent Talks (Partial List -- No Animations)
 
 
In Clouds We Trust: Towards a Trustworthy Marketplace for Cloud Resources  
  • DIMACS, Rutgers University, NJ (2011-12-09)
Network and Cloud Resource Packing Games
  • ECE & CS Dept, University of British Colombia, CA (2010-10-22)
  • CS Dept, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA (2010-09-29)
  • Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France (2010-06-29)
  • Technical U of Berlin & Deutsche Telekom (2010-06-22)
Trade & Cap: Market-Based Management of Shared Bandwidth  
  • NetEcon, Vancouver, CA (2010-10-03)
Mobility Coordination for Improved Ad-Hoc Routing and Field Coverage  
  • IEEE/IFIP Med-Hic-Net'2010, Juan-Les-Pins, France (2010-06-25)
Network and Cloud Resource Management Games
  • CS Dept, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (2009-11-11)
  • CSE Dept, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (2009-12-08)
  • CS Dept, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX (2010-04-19)
Tussles in Cyberspace
  • Sociology Dept, Boston University, Boston (2010-02-11)
Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges & Opportunities
  • CISE, Boston University, Boston (2008-05-08)
Selfish Neighbor Selection: Thou Shalt Be A Selfish Overlay Neighbor
  • Microsoft Research Cairo Innovation Labs, Egypt (2008-12-29)
  • German University, Cairo, Egypt (2008-12-22)
  • Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France (2008-11-12)
  • CISE, Boston University, Boston (2007-12-07)
  • CS Dept and CSE Dept, U of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (2007-10-19)
  • CS Dept, U of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA (2007-10-17)
  • Nortel Networks, Billerica, MA (2007-10-09)
Computer Scientists: Architects of a New World
  • CAS Open House, Boston U, MA (2007-04-06)
Type-disciplined, Scalable, Practical Composition of Networked Services
  • CS Dept, U of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA (2006-12-01)
  • BUCS, Network Reading Group, Boston U, Boston MA (2006-03-13)
Friendly Virtual Machines
  • VMware Research Lab, Cambridge, MA (2006-06-29)
  • Microsoft, Redmond, WA (2005-07-20)
  • ACM/Usenix VEE'2005 Conference, Chicago, IL (2005-06-10)
snBench: The Sensor Network Programming Workbench Architecture
  • CSE Dept, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (2007-04-19)
  • SDP Distributed Systems Seminar, BBN Technologies, MA (2007-03-22)
  • ECE, Boston U, Boston, MA (2007-02-07)
  • Sensor Network Consortium, Boston U, Boston, MA (2006-11-17)
  • IEEE Basenets 2005, Boston, MA (2005-10-03)
  • Sensor Network Consortium, Boston U, Boston, MA (2005-05-13)
Exploiting the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources
  • Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (2006-11-07)
  • Dartmouth College, ISTS Distinguished Speaker Series, NH (2006-05-24)
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA (2005-07-20)
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (2005-04-19)
  • CCS, Boston U, Boston, MA (2005-02-11)
  • BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA (2005-01-20)
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2004-11-19)
  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2004-10-29)
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England (2004-10-15)
  • IHP, Frankfurt, Germany (2004-10-08)
  • U of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (2004-09-24)
  • RPI, Albany, NY (2004-04-30)
Deconstructing the Current Models of Publications in Computer Science
  • Telefonica Research Labs, Barcelona, Spain (2008-11-20)
  • Computing Research Association, Snowbird, Utah (2006-06-27)
Practical and Efficient Construction of Network Caricatures
  • U of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR (2004-11-29)
  • U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (2004-10-28)
  • Alexandria U, Alexandria, Egypt (2004-10-12)
  • Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England (2004-10-15)
  • ICIR, U of California, Berkeley, CA (2003-10-31)
  • CCS, Boston U, Boston, MA (2003-09-19)
  • ECE, Boston U, Boston, MA (2002-12-04)
  • Purdue U, Lafayette, IN (2002-10-07)
  • DIMACS, Rutgers U, NJ (2002-02-15)
Overview of the Sensorium Projects at Boston University
  • Sensor Network Consortium Inaugural Meeting, Boston U, Boston, MA (2004-11-12)
  • NSF Research Infrastructure PI Meeting, Washington, DC (2004-05-27)
OSMOSIS: Scalable Delivery of Real-Time Streaming Media in Ad-Hoc Overlays
  • Old Dominion U, Norfolk, VA (2005-04-18)
  • ICDCS DDRTS Workshop, Brown U, Providence, RI (2003-05-19)
Accelerating Internet Streaming Media Delivery using Network-Aware Partial Caching
  • IEEE ICDS'2002, Vienna, Austria (2002-07-03)
Hierarchical Characterization of Live Streaming Media
  • Uof Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR (2004-11-29)
  • ACM Sigcomm IMW'2002 (now the IMC Conference), Marseille, France (2002-11-07)
Characterizing Reference Locality in the WWW
  • Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, Miami Beach, FL (1996-12-19)
OCEANS @ BU -- Taming the WWW: From Web Measurements to Web Protocol Design
  • MIT, ACM Chapter, Plenary Speech, Cambridge, MA (1998-01-15)
  • The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA (1997-04-14)
  • CS Department, U of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (1997-03-12)
  • CS Department, U of Vermont, VT (1997-03-03)
  • Networking and Distributed Systems Research Center, Bell Labs, Murray Hill (1996-07-25)
Speculative Dissemination and Service for Web Content Delivery (a.k.a. inventing CDNs)
  • CS Department, U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1996-05-24)
  • CS Department, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (1996-03-11)
  • IEEE ICDE'96, New Orleans, Louisiana (1996-02-28)
  • BUCS, Oceans Group, Boston, MA (1995-02-19)