Jeff Terrace

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Princeton University
Department of Computer Science
35 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540-5233

Office: Room 001B
Email: jterrace <at> cs <dot> princeton <dot> edu

I am currently a second year graduate student at Princeton University in the Computer Science PhD program and am advised by Michael J. Freedman. I graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007 with a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics.

I am a member of the S* Network Systems (SNS) group, a subdivision of the Network Systems Group.

I contribute to the SNS Blog where an archive of my posts can be found.

Scalable storage systems - Developing a datacenter-focused storage system—CRAQ (Chain Replication with Apportioned Queries)—capable of good availability, high throughput, and low latency, while providing a sliding scale of read consistency operations (from eventual to strong consistency guarantees). Special consideration is given to high-performance support for cross-data-center replication, using geo-diversity for performance and fault-tolerance reasons.
Peer-to-peer Content Distribution - Developing a new browser-based peer-to-peer content distribution network called Firecoral. Firecoral enables mutually distrustful users to share their browser caches, yet ensures the authenticity of content and enables users to preserve privacy by expressing flexible content sharing policies.

Object Storage on CRAQ: High-throughput chain replication for read-mostly workloads
Jeff Terrace and Michael J. Freedman
Proc. USENIX Annual Technical Conference
(USENIX ‘09) San Diego, CA, June 2009 [PDF, Slides, Video Presentation from USENIX]
Bringing P2P to the Web: Security and Privacy in the Firecoral Network
Jeff Terrace, Harold Laidlaw, Hao Eric Liu, Sean Stern, and Michael J. Freedman
Proc. 8th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
(IPTPS ‘09) Boston, MA, April 2009 [PDF, HTML, Slides]