Lawrence Brakmo is currently a member of technical staff

Member of Technical Staff

A Member of Technical Staff is the title for permanent research staff at some institutions and companies. It is roughly equivalent to an assistant professor or associate professor at a university or a chief technical officer in a technology startup company.A Distinguished Member of Technical...

 at Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

. Previously Brakmo was a researcher and project manager at NTT DoCoMo

NTT DoCoMo

is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone , i-mode , and mail services...

 USA Labs. Before that he was affiliated with the Western Research Lab of Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...

/Compaq

Compaq

Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....

/Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

. Brakmo received his Ph.D. in Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 from The University of Arizona, where he worked on computer systems and computer networks research that included x-Sim and TCP Vegas

TCP Vegas

TCP Vegas is a TCP congestion avoidance algorithm that emphasizes packet delay, rather than packet loss, as a signal to help determine the rate at which to send packets. It was developed at the University of Arizona by Lawrence Brakmo and Larry L...

. His adviser was Larry L. Peterson

Larry L. Peterson

Prof. Larry L. Peterson is a noted American computer scientist at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey.Dr. Peterson received his B.S. in Computer Science from Kearney State College, Nebraska, in 1979, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1982 and 1985,...

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He once biked to Alaska from Mexico.

External links

• Lawrence Brakmo homepage