Vern Paxson
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Vern Edward Paxson is a Professor of Computer Science
at the University of California, Berkeley
. He also works as an Internet researcher based at the International Computer Science Institute
in Berkeley, California
. His interests range from transport protocols to intrusion detection and worms. He is an active member of the IETF community and served as the chair of the IRTF
from 2001 until 2005. From 1998 to 1999 he served on the IESG as Transport Area Director of the IETF. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow
of the Association for Computing Machinery
.
Paxson is also the original author of the flex
lexical analyzer and the Bro
intrusion detection system. Backscatter is a term coined by Vern Paxson to describe Internet background noise
resulting from a DDoS attack using multiple spoofed addresses.
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...
at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. He also works as an Internet researcher based at the International Computer Science Institute
International Computer Science Institute
The International Computer Science Institute is an independent, non-profit research organization located in Berkeley, California, USA. Since its founding in 1988, ICSI has maintained an affiliation with the University of California, Berkeley, where several of its members hold faculty appointments...
in Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
. His interests range from transport protocols to intrusion detection and worms. He is an active member of the IETF community and served as the chair of the IRTF
IRTF
IRTF may refer to:* Internet Research Task Force, a research organization working on topics related to the evolution of the Internet* NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, an infrared telescope in Hawaii...
from 2001 until 2005. From 1998 to 1999 he served on the IESG as Transport Area Director of the IETF. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow
Fellow
A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...
of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
.
Paxson is also the original author of the flex
Flex lexical analyser
flex is a free software alternative to lex. It is frequently used with the free Bison parser generator. Unlike Bison, flex is not part of the GNU Project. Flex was written in C by Vern Paxson around 1987...
lexical analyzer and the Bro
Bro (software)
Bro is an open source Unix based Network intrusion detection system . It is released under the BSD license.Bro was originally written by Vern Paxson.-External links:* *...
intrusion detection system. Backscatter is a term coined by Vern Paxson to describe Internet background noise
Internet background noise
Internet background noise 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 noise packets normally contain unsolicited commercial or network control messages, or are the result of port scans and...
resulting from a DDoS attack using multiple spoofed addresses.