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James Mickens
Topic: Biography
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| Board member of | Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society |
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| Discipline | Computer science |
| Sub-discipline | Cybersecurity, distributed computing |
| Institutions | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
James W. Mickens is an American computer scientist and the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.[1] His research focuses on distributed systems, such as large-scale services and ways to make them more secure.[2][3][4] He is critical of machine learning as a boilerplate solution to most outstanding computational problems.[5]
Early life and education
James Mickens was raised in Atlanta. His father is physicist and mathematician Ronald E. Mickens.[6][7]
Mickens earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001, as well as a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in 2008.[8][7]
Career
Mickens worked as a member of the Distributed Systems group at Microsoft Research from 2009 through 2015.[9][10] He spent one semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through the MLK Visiting Professors program becoming a professor at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2015, where he was awarded tenure in 2019.[8][10][9][11] In 2016, he was one of the researchers working on Polaris, a new system designed at MIT to decrease the loading time for webpages.[12]
In 2020, Mickens was appointed to the board of directors of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.[13] In 2021, he and Jonathan Zittrain began the Institute for Rebooting Social Media, a three-year-long BKC project to research and create new ideas to improve social media.[14]
Publications
- Mickens, James W.; Noble, Brian D. (May 2006). EECS Department, University of Michigan. "Exploiting Availability Prediction in Distributed Systems". NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (Berkeley, California: USENIX Association) 3: 73–86. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1267680.1267686.
- Netravali, Ravi; Goyal, Ameesh; Mickens, James; Balakrishnan, Hari (March 2016). "Polaris: Faster Page Loads Using Fine-grained Dependency Tracking". NSDI'16: Proceedings of the 13th Usenix Conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (Berkeley, California: USENIX Association): 123–136. ISBN 978-1-931971-29-4. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2930611.2930620.
References
- ↑ Dizikes, Peter (December 8, 2020). "Straight Talk about Race in Academia" (in en). https://news.mit.edu/2020/black-ivory-racism-academia-1208. "...said James Mickens, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University."
- ↑ Clarke, Richard A.; Knake, Robert K. (2020-09-15) (in en). The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats. Penguin. pp. 43–45. ISBN 978-0-525-56198-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=F1X4DwAAQBAJ.
- ↑ Milano, Brett (October 7, 2020). "'We need to be more imaginative about cybersecurity than we are right now'" (in en-US). https://hls.harvard.edu/today/we-need-to-be-more-imaginative-about-cybersecurity-than-we-are-right-now/.
- ↑ "Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain and James Mickens Discuss Cybersecurity". November 6, 2020. https://www.techpolicy.com/Blog/November-2020/Harvard-s-Jonathan-Zittrain-and-James-Mickens-Disc.aspx.
- ↑ Doctorow, Cory (August 20, 2018). "Here's the funniest, most scathing, most informative and most useful talk on AI and security". https://boingboing.net/2018/08/20/must-see-tv.html.
- ↑ Gibson, Lydialyle (2016-02-19). "James Mickens" (in en). https://harvardmagazine.com/2016/03/james-mickens.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "James Mickens and his father, Ronald Mickens, after James received his PhD in Computer Science Mickens Ronald G4" (in en). 2016-03-07. https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/photos/mickens-ronald-g4.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "James Mickens | Berkman Klein Center" (in en). 2020-09-02. https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/jmickens.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "#BlackInTheIvory: Academia's Role in Institutional Racism". https://mlkscholars.mit.edu/updates/2020/blackintheivory-academia-s-role-institutional-racism.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Harvard man gets tenure! "I want to thank all of the enemies that I had to destroy to achieve this great honor."" (in en-US). Stanford University. November 2019. https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2019/11/harvard-man-gets-tenure-i-want-to-thank-all-of-the-enemies-that-i-had-to-destroy-to-achieve-this-great-honor/.
- ↑ Kohli, Sonali (January 20, 2015). "An MIT professor and Microsoft researcher's advice for black computer scientists" (in en). https://qz.com/329332/an-mit-professor-and-microsoft-researchers-advice-for-black-computer-scientists/.
- ↑ Wang, Shan (March 9, 2016). "MIT researchers have designed a system that decreases loading time for websites by 34 percent". https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/mit-researchers-have-designed-a-system-that-decreases-loading-time-for-websites-by-34-percent/.
- ↑ "Berkman Klein Center's Board of Directors Warmly Welcomes James Mickens | Berkman Klein Center" (in en). September 25, 2020. https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2020-09/berkman-klein-centers-board-directors-warmly-welcomes-james-mickens.
- ↑ "Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society to launch a three-year multidisciplinary Institute to "reboot social media" | Berkman Klein Center" (in en). July 21, 2021. https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2021-07/berkman-klein-center-to-launch-three-year-institute-for-rebooting-social-media.
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