Keith Marzullo | |
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| Education | Doctor of Philosophy Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Stanford University, Occidental College |
| Known for | Contributions to distributed systems |
| Awards | ACM Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | distributed systems |
| Institutions | University of Maryland College of Information Studies, National Science Foundation, University of California San Diego, Cornell University |
| Thesis | Maintaining the time in a distributed system : an example of a loosely-coupled distributed service (1984) |
| Doctoral advisors | Susan Owicki & Hugh Lauer[1] |
| Doctoral students | Lorenzo Alvisi |
Keith Marzullo is the inventor of Marzullo's algorithm, which is part of the basis of the Network Time Protocol and the Windows Time Service. On August 1, 2016 he became the Dean of the University of Maryland College of Information Studies[2] after serving as the Director of the NITRD National Coordination Office.[3] Prior to this he was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego. In 2011 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[4]