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Abdelsalam 'Solom' Heddaya
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solom (at) heddaya.net
+1 781 799-9091 mobile
+1 425 895-8269 home
+1 630 982-0992 fax |
3702 167th Pl. NE
Apt. H-2026
Redmond, WA 98052
U.S.A. |
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03-- |
Senior Architect
Windows OS Reliability |
Microsoft
Corp.
Redmond, WA
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97-03 |
Chief Technology Officer (CTO),
Member of the Board of Directors, VP and co-founder |
InfoLibria, Inc.
Waltham, MA
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01-- |
Adjunct Associate Professor |
Boston University
Computer Science Department
Boston, MA |
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97-01 |
Associate Professor (on leave) |
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88-97 |
Assistant Professor |
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00-01 |
Member of the Technical Advisory Board |
Integral Access, Inc.
Chelmsford, MA |
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95-96 |
Visiting Scholar
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Harvard University Division of
Applied Science
Cambridge, MA |
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95/96 |
Research
Consultant, Parallel Computing Applications
Department of Biological
Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. |
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA |
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1988 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science |
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
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1983 |
S.M. in Applied Mathematics |
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1980 |
B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Computer Engineering and Automatic Control |
Alexandria University
Alexandria Egypt |
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| Venture Capital |
97-01 |
$128M. Raised in four
rounds of private financing for InfoLibria, Inc.
Played key role in
earlier rounds, and supporting role in third and fourth. |
Adams Capital,
Patricof Ventures,
Sandler Capital,
Nortel Networks,
Mellon Ventures,
and others |
| Grants |
96-97 |
$98k. Research Instrumentation for Real-time,
Multi-media and High Performance Computing in Distributed Systems
PI's: M. Chen, A. Bestavros, and A. Heddaya |
National Science Foundation |
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95-98 |
$524k. Graduate
Assistantships in Areas of National Need
PI's: M. Chen, A. Bestavros, M. Crovella, A. Heddaya, and S. Sclaroff |
US
Department of Education |
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92-95 |
$398k. Undergraduate Curriculum in Massively
Parallel Computing
PI's: C. Rebbi, S. Homer, A. Heddaya, R. Giles and R. Brower |
National Science Foundation |
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90-91 |
$66k. Computer
Science Research Instrumentation
PI's: A. Heddaya, A. Biliris, S. Salveter, and E. Sciore |
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89-91 |
$70k. Research
Initiation Award
PI: A. Heddaya |
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| Prizes |
2000 |
Streaming Media
Product of the Year.
Awarded for MediaMall, InfoLibria's second product. |
Network Magazine
NYC |
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1999 |
Hot Product of
1999.
Granted in the "Public Network" category, for DynaCache's "unique
distributed architecture". Awarded globally by premier industry publication
in the field, published by Prentice-Hall (merged into
Network Magazine in 1999). |
Data Communications Magazine
NYC |
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1998 |
Top 25 Hot
Startups in 1998.
Awarded nationally by premier industry publication. |
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1998 |
Hottest Startup in 1998.
Awarded to one Massachusetts startup every year. |
Massachusetts Interactive Media Council |
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1980 |
National Graduation Award.
Honors the top three engineering graduates from each university. |
National Society of Engineering
Egypt |
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Books &
Book
Chapters |
1998 |
Recovery-Enhanced
Reliability, Dependability and Performability
A. Heddaya, A. Helal, and A. Elmagarmid
Chapter 4 in
Recovery
Mechanisms In Database Systems (V. Kumar and M. Hsu,
eds.) |
Prentice-Hall
Upper Saddle River, NJ |
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1997 |
Transaction
Optimization Techniques
A. Helal, Y-S. Kim, M. Nodine, A. Elmagarmid, and A. Heddaya
Chapter 9 in
Advanced
Transaction Models and Architectures (S. Jajodia and L. Kerschberg,
eds.) |
Kluwer Academic
Boston, MA |
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1996
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Replication Techniques in Distributed Systems
(book)
A. Helal, A. Heddaya and B. Bhargava. |
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Issued
Patents |
2001 |
Protocol for Distributing Fresh Content among Networked Cache Servers
A. Heddaya, S. Mirdad, D. Yates, and I. Yates |
US
Patent
No. 6,205,481 |
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2000 |
Method and System for Distributed Caching, Prefetching and
Replication
D. Yates, A. Heddaya, and S. Mirdad |
US
Patent
No. 6,167,438 |
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Articles |
Sep
2002 |
An Economically Scalable Internet
A. Heddaya |
IEEE Computer
vol. 35, no. 9, pp.93-95 |
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Refereed Papers |
Dec
1997 |
Congestion control for asynchronous parallel computing on
workstation networks
A. Heddaya and K. Park |
Parallel Computing
vol.23, no.13, pp.1855-1875 |
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June
1997 |
Diffusion-based Caching Along Routing Paths
A. Heddaya, S. Mirdad and D. Yates |
2nd Intl. Web Caching Wrkp.
Boulder, CO |
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May
1997 |
WebWave: Globally Load Balanced Fully Distributed Caching of
Hot Published Documents
A. Heddaya and S. Mirdad |
IEEE 17th Intl. Conf. on
Distributed Computing Systems
Baltimore, MD |
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Aug
1995 |
Parallel Computing on High-Speed Wide-Area Networks: A
Pricing Policy for its Communication Needs
A. Heddaya and K. Park |
IEEE 3rd Wrkp. on Arch. and Implementation of High Perf. Comm. Subsystems
Mystic, CT |
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Jun
1995 |
Application-level Document Caching in the Internet
A. Bestavros, B. Carter, M. Crovella, C. Cunha, A. Heddaya, and S. Mirdad |
2nd
Intl. Wrkp. on Services in Dist. Networked Environments, Whistler, Canada |
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Aug
1994 |
Mapping parallel iterative methods onto workstation networks
A. Heddaya and K. Park |
IEEE 3rd Intl. Symp. on High Perf. Dist.
Computing
San Francisco, CA |
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Jan
1994 |
Using Warp to control network contention in Mermera
A. Heddaya, K. Park, and H. Sinha |
27th Hawaii Intl. Conf. on System
Sciences
Maui, HI |
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Jan
1993 |
An overview of Mermera: A system and formalism for
non-coherent distributed parallel memory
A. Heddaya and H. Sinha |
26th Hawaii Intl. Conf. on System
Sciences
Maui, HI |
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Oct
1989 |
Two Phase Gossip: Managing Distributed Event Histories,
A. Heddaya, M. Hsu, and W. Weihl |
Information Sciences
vol.49, no.1-3 |
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Jun
1985 |
Support for Distributed Transactions in the TABS Prototype
A. Spector et al. |
IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering
vol.SE-11, no.6, pp.520-530 |
Technical
Reports
etc. |
Sept
1996 |
Communicable Memory and Lazy Barriers for Bulk Synchronous
Parallelism in BSPk.
A. Fahmy and A. Heddaya |
BU CS TR
96-012 |
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Aug
1996 |
BSPk: Low Overhead Communication Constructs and Logical
Barriers for Bulk Synchronous Parallel Programming
(Extended Abstract)
A. Fahmy and A. Heddaya |
Bulletin IEEE TCOS
vol.8, no.2, pp.27-32 |
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Mar
1996 |
Distributed Parallel Computing in Mermera: Mixing Noncoherent
Shared Memories.
A. Heddaya and H.S. Sinha |
BU CS TR
96-005 |
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Dec
1994 |
OS Support for Portable Bulk Synchronous Parallel Programs
A. Heddaya and A.F. Fahmy |
BU CS TR
94-013 |
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Jun
1993 |
An implementation of Mermera: A shared memory system that
mixes coherence with non-coherence
A. Heddaya and H. Sinha |
BU CS TR
93-006 |
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Oct
1990 |
Transactional Replication for Typed Objects
A. Heddaya, P. Ramamurthy, and S. Sinha |
Wrkp. on Transactions and Objects,
Ottawa, Canada |
Ph.D.
Students |
2001 |
Sulaiman Mirdad
(co-founder, InfoLibria, Inc., 1997-2001)
Thesis: WebWave--Large-scale Load-balanced
Content Distribution |
VP
of Technology
Naseej, Inc.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
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1998 |
Arif Bhatti
Thesis: Design and Evaluation of Shared Memory for Workstation
Networks |
Senior Architect
724 Solutions, Inc.
Toronto, Canada |
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1996 |
Kihong Park
Non-thesis published work on: network congestion control, especially
for asynchronous parallel applications. |
Assistant Professor,
Purdue University Computer Sciences
Department,
West Lafayette, IN |
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1993 |
Himanshu Sinha
Thesis: Non-Coherent Distributed Shared Memory for Parallel Computing |
Consulting Engineer
InfoLibria, Inc.
Waltham, MA |
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Societies |
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Member of
IEEE Computer Society (since ~1978),
ACM (since ~1978),
Broadband Content Delivery Forum
(since 2000).
Participant at IETF (since 2000). |
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Program committee
member of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (1990), IEEE
Symp. on Computers and Communications (1997), and
Intl. Workshop on Web Caching and
Content Delivery (2000).
General secretary, American Arab Scientific Society (1992-93). |
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