Bruce MacDowell Maggs is an American computer scientist and

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at Duke University whose research interests include computer networks, distributed systems, and computer security. He was a founding employee and served as vice president for Research and Development for

Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery networkJ. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl. (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. Akamai's Inte ...

. He is currently the Director of Engineering at Emerald Innovations, Inc.

Biography

Maggs earned his B.S. (1985), M.S (1986), and Ph.D. (1989) from the

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. After graduating, he worked for

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as a research scientist. In 1994, he joined the

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department at Carnegie Mellon University, rising to the rank of full professor with

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. In 1998, Maggs took three semesters off of teaching to become a founding employee of the then-startup

( Nasdaq: AKAM). While at Akamai, he became Vice President of Research and Development. He currently serves as Vice President of Research for the company. From 1998 to 1999, Maggs was on the faculty of

as a

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. In 2007, Maggs joined the faculty of Duke University, where he is currently the Pelham Wilder Professor of Computer Science. He holds a dual appointment to the Electrical Engineering department of Duke's

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. He is currently on leave from Duke University to serve as the Director of Engineering at Emerald Innovations, Inc.

Personal life

Bruce Maggs is the brother of Federal Judge Gregory E. Maggs.

Other achievements

Apart from leading the early engineering efforts for Akamai, Maggs was a co-creator of ''

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'', a popular early multiplayer online game developed at the

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in the late 1970s.

Recognition

Maggs was elected as an

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in 2018 for "contributions to the development of content distribution networks and the theory of computer networks".

References

External links

Bruce Maggs's Homepage

An Interview with Bruce Maggs, vice-president for R&D at Akamai Tech
- Mihai Budiu, ''Netreport'', March 2001 Carnegie Mellon University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Duke University faculty Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery {{compu-scientist-stub