I am a PhD candidate in MIT CSAIL's Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group. I work with Robert T. Morris and I am interested in Web security, Web platforms, cloud computing, distributed computing, and performance.
In addition to computer science research, I have been involved with a number of other activities and projects over the years.
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| Office: | 32 Vassar St. 32-G996 Cambridge, MA 02139 |
| Phone: | 1-617-253-0004 |
A World Wide Web Without Walls.
Maxwell Krohn, Alexander Yip, Micah Brodsky, Robert Morris, Michael Walfish.
6th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2007) Atlanta, GA, November 2007
Information Flow Control for Standard OS Abstractions.
Maxwell Krohn, Alexander Yip, Micah Brodsky, Natan Cliffer, M. Frans Kaashoek, Eddie Kohler, Robert Morris.
Proceedings of the 21st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2007) Stevenson, Washington, USA, October 2007.
Pastwatch: a Distributed Version Control System.
Alexander Yip, Benjie Chen, Robert Morris.
Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2006). San Jose, CA. May, 2006.
Multiprocessor Support for Event-Driven Programs.
Nickolai Zeldovich and Alexander Yip and Frank Dabek and Robert Morris and David Mazieres and Frans Kaashoek
Proceedings of the 2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2003), San Antonio, Texas, 2003.
Toward Secure Services from Untrusted Developers.
Micah Brodsky, Petros Efstathopoulos, Frans Kaashoek, Eddie Kohler, Maxwell Krohn, David Mazieres, Robert Morris, Steve VanDeBogart, and Alexander Yip.
MIT CSAIL TR-2007-041.
NATRON: Overlay Routing to Oblivious Destinations.
Alexander Yip.
Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2002.
Semester| Class | | |
| Spring 2007 | 6.033 | Section Instructor |
| Fall 2003 | 6.829 | Teaching Assistant for Networking |
| Spring 2002 | 6.033 | Head Teaching Assistant |
I enjoy building, fixing, and modifying all sorts of things, including cars, houses, cameras, bicycles. This has lead to involvement with a number of projects including:
Maya Pedal is an NGO based in Guatemala building pedal powered machines called bicimaquinas for the third world. I worked with a group at MIT that is collaborating with MayaPedal working to improved the design and manufacture of bicimaquinas. I also worked with the team on the Bicilavadora, a pedal powered clothes washing machine designed to reduce the time women spend washing laundry by hand in developing countries. We entered the MIT IDEAS competition and our proposal ultimately tied for the top honor which helped fund a number of trips where our team travelled to MayaPedal and worked on both the efficiency and bicilavadora projects. Trip photos
Bicycle framebuilding is a hobby I picked up on my own. I taught myself how to braze, bought some tubes, and built a commuting fixed gear frame that I ride almost every day. I am currently building second frame for long distance riding, but progress is sporadic.
In another life, I was the team secretary for MIT's solar car team where our team raced at World Solar Rallye 1998 in Akita, Japan and the Dream Cup Solar Car Race 1998 in Suzuka, Japan. We won 3rd and 5th place respectively.