Marinus Frans (Frans) Kaashoek (born 1965,

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) is a Dutch

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, entrepreneur, and Charles Piper Professor at the

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. He was elected a member of the

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(2006) for contributions to computer systems, distributed systems, and content-distribution networks.

Biography

Kaashoek received his MA in 1988 and his Ph.D degree in Computer Science in 1992 from the

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under the supervision of Andy Tanenbaum for the thesis "Group communication in distributed computer systems." In 1993 Kaashoek was appointed Charles Piper Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the

. He is a member of the

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's Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group.Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems
Accessed February 21, 2023. Kaashoek was one of a handful of researchers awarded the NSF National Young Investigator award in 1994 and the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in 2010. In 2004 he was elected

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, and in 2006 he became a member of the NAE.

Work

Kaashoek's research interest are in the fields of "computer systems: operating systems, networking, programming languages, compilers, and computer architecture for distributed, mobile, and parallel systems."Frans Kaashoek is the Charles Piper Professor in MIT
at ''mit.edu''. Accessed September 11, 2013. In 1998 Kaashoek co-founded

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, a software company that developed software products for

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. It was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000. In the early 2000s Kaashoek assisted in the founding of Mazu Networks Inc. and served as board member until it was acquired by

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in 2009.

Publications

* 1992.
Group communication in distributed computer systems
' * 2009. ''Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction''. With

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. ;Articles * M. Frans Kaashoek, Robbert van Renesse, Hans van Staveren and Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1993)
FLIP: an internetwork protocol for supporting distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 11:73–106. * * *

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