Keith Winstein

Keith Jonathan Winstein
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forauthor of Mosh
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer science and journalism (professionally)
Institutions
Doctoral advisorHari Balakrishnan
Websitecs.stanford.edu/~keithw/

Keith Jonathan Winstein (born 1981[citation needed]) is a U.S. computer scientist and journalist. He is currently a professor at Stanford University.[1]

Previously, he was the Claude E. Shannon Research Assistant[2] at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Networks and Mobile Systems group[3] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pursuing a Ph.D. under Hari Balakrishnan. Winstein is best known as the author of Mosh, the mobile shell, a UDP-based ssh replacement optimized for mobile users featuring predictive local echo, automatic roaming, and high network resiliency.

He is the son of the late experimental physicist Bruce Winstein.

  1. ^ Widom, Jennifer (Summer 2014). "2014 Department Newsletter". Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  2. ^ Keith Winstein and Faraz Najafi named recipients of 2012 Claude E. Shannon Research Assistantships, RLE News Articles, 27 April 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Keith Winstein at Wireless@MIT". MIT CSAIL.