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 About The Authors
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+Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie have been collaborating on systems
+projects and writing networking textbooks since the 1990s. Their
+book *Computer Networks: A Systems Approach*, a staple of networking
+curricula for the last 30 years, is now in its sixth edition. That
+introductory textbook, along with several new books focused on
+emerging topics in network and cloud systems, are available as open
+source at https://systemsapproach.org.
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+Larry spent most of his career in academia, first at the Unviersity of
+Arizona and later at Princeton University, where he was the
+Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science. While at Princeton he
+directed the PlanetLab Consortium, building a global testbed for
+research on Internet-scale services. A CDN startup he helped spin out
+of PlanetLab was acquired by Akamai in 2010. In 2013 Larry
+transitioned to Emeritus status at Princeton and joined the Open
+Networking Lab (now the Open Networking Foundation) where he served as
+CTO, leading the design of open source platforms for Software-Defined
+Networking (SDN) and edge cloud computing. He currently chairs the
+Technical Steering Team for Aether, a Private 5G Project of the Linux
+Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a
+Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, the 2010 recipient of the IEEE
+Kobayashi Computer and Communication Award, and the 2013 recipient of
+the ACM SIGCOMM Award. He currently lives in Tucson Arizona.
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+Bruce began his networking career at Bellcore where he worked on the
+Aurora Gigabit testbed, which led to his first collaboration with
+Larry on high-speed host-network interfaces. He then went to Cisco
+where he led a team of architects responsible for Multiprotocol Label
+Switching (MPLS). He worked extensively at the IETF on standardizing
+MPLS and various quality of service technologies. Bruce also spent five
+years as a visiting lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of
+Technology. In 2012 he joined Software Defined Networking (SDN)
+startup Nicira as a lead architect and was then a principal engineer
+at VMware following the acquisition of Nicira. In 2017 he took on the
+role of VP and CTO for the Asia Pacific region at VMware, which gave
+him the opportunity to return to Australia. He is a Fellow of the ACM
+and chaired ACM SIGCOMM from 2009 to 2013. He received the ACM SIGCOMM
+award in 2025.