Vern Edward Paxson is a Professor of
Computer Science
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at the
University of California, Berkeley
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. He also leads the Networking and Security Group at the
International Computer Science Institute
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in
Berkeley, California
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. His interests range from transport protocols to intrusion detection and worms. He is an active member of the
Internet Engineering Task Force
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(IETF) community and served as the chair of the
IRTF from 2001 until 2005. From 1998 to 1999 he served on the
IESG
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as Transport Area Director for the IETF.
In 2006 Paxson was inducted as a
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
(ACM). The
ACM's Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) gave Paxson its 2011 award, "for his seminal contributions to the fields of Internet measurement and Internet security, and for distinguished leadership and service to the Internet community." The annual
SIGCOMM Award The SIGCOMM Award recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks.
The award is presented in the annual SIGCOMM Technical Conference.
The awardees have been:
* 2022 Henning Schulzrinne
* 2021 Hari Balakrishnan
* 2020 Amin ...
recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks.
Paxson is also the original author of the
flex
Flex or FLEX may refer to:
Computing
* Flex (language), developed by Alan Kay
* FLEX (operating system), a single-tasking operating system for the Motorola 6800
* FlexOS, an operating system developed by Digital Research
* FLEX (protocol), a comm ...
lexical analyzer and the
Zeek
Zeek is a free and open-source software network analysis framework. Vern Paxson began development work on Zeek in 1995 at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Zeek is a network security monitor (NSM) but can also be used as a network intrusion detect ...
intrusion detection system.
Backscatter
In physics, backscatter (or backscattering) is the reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the direction from which they came. It is usually a diffuse reflection due to scattering, as opposed to specular reflection as from a mirror, a ...
is a term coined by Vern Paxson to describe
Internet background noise Internet background noise (IBN, also known as Internet background radiation) consists of data packets on the Internet which are addressed to IP addresses or ports where there is no network device set up to receive them.
These packets often contain ...
resulting from a
DDoS
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host
A ...
attack using multiple spoofed addresses.
Paxson earned a PhD in 1997 at Berkeley under Domenico Ferrari.
References
External links
Vern Paxson's homepage
American computer programmers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
Computer security academics
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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