Albert Greenberg is an American

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and

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who is notable for his contributions to the design of operating carrier and datacenter networks2015,

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s, ACM
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Retrieved August 22, 2015 as well as to advances in

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ing and

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. At

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, he is a Corporate Vice President and the director of development for its

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service, which is a cloud computing infrastructure platform that coordinates

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s around the world. In contrast to hard-wired computer networks, firms such as Microsoft are turning increasingly to

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(or SDN) approaches to run its cloud computing networks by managing

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s across "millions of servers". He oversees development of technologies that keep the network running in the cloud, so that when component failures happen, software systems pinpoint the failures and "route around the faulty components;" the technology permits data centers to be "software-defined", allowing the cloud to grow rapidly while being flexible to meet changing needs, as he explained in 2015 in ''

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'' magazine. His research focuses on the infrastructure of cloud services, management of enterprise networks, data center networks, and systems monitoring. Greenberg received his PhD in 1983 at the

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as an ARCS Scholar (Seattle Chapter). He has won numerous awards for his contributions: he is an

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, received the

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in 2015 for his "fundamental contributions to large-scale backbone networks and data-center networks," and won the prestigious

in 2015 for "pioneering the theory and practice of operating carrier and datacenter networks." In addition, he publishes in numerous scholarly journals on topics such as networking and cloud computing. He began his career at

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and became division manager for network measurement engineering and research, was promoted to executive director and an AT&T Fellow, and was hired by Microsoft in 2007 as a principal researcher. In 2016, he was inducted into the United States

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for "contributions to the theory and practice of operating large carrier and data center networks."

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Albert Greenberg Keynote speech

Patents by Albert Greenberg
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