The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific 'truth'. But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints.
I do research on Internet-scale computer networks and distributed systems. My research approach is primarily experimental -- building and evaluating ideas in “the wild”. Much of my work focuses on improving the visibility of measurement on networked systems, leveraging this visibility to characterize them and the infrastructure they rely on, and designing new and improved systems based on the gained insight. As the forces shaping the Internet ecosystem are less purely technical, in recent years I have started to explore the interactions between pervasive networked systems and their broader context, from natural disaster, to political unrest and economics. more?
Fabián E. Bustamante is a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University and Lead Scientist at Phenix, a Chicago-baserd startup focused on real-time video streaming, at scale. Fabián completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. Before going to Georgia Tech, he studied and taught at the Universidad Nacional de La Patagonia San Juan Bosco (Argentina), from which he received both a 3-year and a 5-year-and-project degrees in computer science. His research interests span several areas of experimental systems, with a focus on networking and distributed systems. As part of their work, he and his research group have released tens of open-source systems that together have gained over 1.5 million users worldwide. Fabián is an ACM and IEEE senior member, a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award and the Science Foundation of Ireland E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award.
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