Özalp Babaoğlu (born August 10, 1955, in

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), is a Turkish computer scientist. He is currently professor of

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at the

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. He received a Ph.D. in 1981 from the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

. He is the recipient of 1982 ''Sakrison Memorial Award'', 1989

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''Recognition Award'' and 1993 USENIX Association ''Lifetime Achievement Award'' for his contributions to the

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system community and to ''Open Industry Standards''. Before moving to Bologna in 1988, Babaoğlu was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at

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. He has participated in several European research projects in distributed computing and complex systems. Babaoğlu is an

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and has served as a resident fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna and on the editorial boards for ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
an
Springer-Verlag Distributed Computing
Babaoğlu is an avid cyclist and has a son and daughter.

Research Areas

Babaoğlu is the author of more tha

in a wide range of research topics, including: * ''Operating Systems'' * ''Performance Evaluation and Modeling'' * ''Distributed Computing'' * ''Byzantine Agreement'' * ''Parallel Computing on Networks of Workstations'' * ''Group Communication Systems'' * ''Peer-to-Peer Systems''. Babaoğlu has contributed to peer-to-peer computing through paradigms, algorithms, frameworks (Anthill) and a widely used open source simulation software package
PeerSim
* ''Autonomic Computing and Self-Management'' * ''Gossip-Based Aggregation'' * ''Overlay Networks and Topology Management'' * ''Decentralized Shape Formation'' * ''Biology and Nature-Inspired Computing''. As part of work on the EU-funde
BISON Project
Babaoğlu and colleagues have developed a library of “design patterns” for distributed computing that draw inspiration from biological or natural processes. * ''Game-Theoretic Techniques in Peer-to-Peer Systems'' * ''Cloud Computing'' * ''High-Performance Computing''

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When Babaoğlu was still a grad student at UC Berkeley, his virtual memory system became a core part of the kernel of Unix/32V, the first 32-bit version of Unix, written for the DEC VAX
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.

During his PhD work at UC Berkeley, Babaoğlu was one of the architects of “

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” which was a major factor in the rapid growth of the Internet through its built-in TCP/IP stack and has influenced numerous other modern operating systems including

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, and

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, Mac OS/X and

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. With

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, the co-founder of

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, Babaoğlu implemented

virtual memory In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" which "creates the illusion to users of a ver ...

in BSD Unix on hardware lacking page reference bits. The Berkeley version of

became the standard in education and research, garnering development support from

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, and was notable for introducing

and inter-networking using

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. BSD Unix was widely distributed in source form so that others could learn from it and improve it; this style of software distribution has led to the

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movement, of which BSD Unix is now recognized to be one of the earliest examples.

References

External links

Ozalp Babaoglu's home page

PeerSim

BISON Project
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