3 Up-and-Coming Computer Scientists to Watch in 2013

Due to the integration of computers in our daily lives, what seemed like uphill and even impossible tasks before are now being regularly executed with remarkable ease.

Technology seems to progress at the same rate that time passes, and there seems to be no end to this positive growth. Change, in fact, is the only thing that seems to be constant. The innovations achieved through the usage of computers would not have occurred without the brilliant minds of computer scientists working as the driving force.

Technological advancements can be hard to predict, but there are three computer scientists in particular who have the shining potential to take the world by storm in 2013.

Dr. Calvert

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Kenneth Calvert is the chair of the University of Kentucky. He worked as the assistant professor in the university’s Computer Science department and was a regular faculty member in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He is currently conducting research on the implementation of complex network service protocols in a project titled ActiveCast.

The ActiveCast project was created to enhance the ease of working with active networks and to increase their scalability. Dr. Calvert has announced his belief that cloud computing holds the key to the next greatest advancements in computer science.

His current projects include wireless link signatures, next-generation communication networks using multi-carrier filter banks, mobile device fingerprinting, new means of addressing, forwarding, and routing, and a partnership with HCI researchers in order to investigate difficulties and solutions for standard networking from home.

He assisted in the development of a topology modeling program from GT-ITM and was a contributing author of several programming books focusing on socket interfaces. Dr. Calvert was an editor of IEEE/ACM transactions on networking. He has obtained degrees from MIT and the University of Texas.

Dr. Griffioen

Dr. Griffioen is an esteemed professor of Computer Science and is the director of a laboratory for advanced networking. He received his degree in Computer Science from Calvin College and his Ph.D. from Purdue University. His expertise is in the areas of computer networks and distributed computing systems.

His research has been performed on subjects including distributed operating systems, network protocols, and multimedia systems. He is currently working on projects centered on post-modern computer inter-network architecture, instrumentation tools for a GENI prototype named ProtoGENI, and a backbone network for GENI. GENI is the global environment for network innovation, a NSF-sponsored effort to build a global networking test that may become the foundation for the Internet of the next generation.

His current project titled "Network Innovation Through Choice" aims at developing a new architecture for networking that, if successful, will revolutionize the world. Dr. Griffioen is also a Lumenware co-founder. His research and consulting activities have led to several developments like group communication services, programmable networks, internet-based services for television, and digital libraries.

Dr. Camp

Dr. Camp is a computer scientist widely known for her research on the topic of wireless networking. Her studies focus on simulation and sensor networks used in Geo systems. Camp received her M.S. from Michigan State University and her Ph.D from the College of William and Mary. She is celebrated for her leadership in increasing computing participation.

She founded and directs a network research group titled Toilers and co-authored an educational kit that has seen use in over 60 universities across 25 countries. In 2007, Camp was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Award by the Colorado School of Mines. In 2012, she was granted recognition as an ACM fellow. She now works as the co-chair of Cra-W and will maintain the seat until 2014.

  Mike Fields

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Mike Fields is a network engineer and guest author at Master of Engineering Degrees, where he has contributed to guides to top-rated online masters of engineering degree programs.