Since the days of being Mr. Dormline (1969-1984), Dennis has been in
and around the group in varying roles, including project manager for
unshielded twisted pair networking in 1989 and living group networking
in 1993. After working on several Institute re-engineering projects,
Dennis returned to be director for Voice, Data and Image Networking.
In Michael's previous tenure at MIT, he was once heard to utter,
"I've seen MITnet from both sides now." He had the opportunity
to be on both the service and support sides of the shop (though we
didn't call it that in those days) and chose to return to MIT on the
service side. Now, he's the Principal Security Engineer for Epoch Internet. He's also the director of MIT
Network Operations' Southern California office.
Matt is currently a virtual member of the group. He manages to reach
across the Internet from North Carolina and help keep our environment
running in ways some wish they could do locally.
Dave managed to code the C-gateway on nothing more exotic than a VT100
with Emacs as his window system. He left to go to FTP software
when it was young. He was recently tracked down to Epilogue where he
is working in protocol development and network management.
Tom began as a user consultant and later a programmer in systems
development. After proving one can drive a truck from Ann Arbor to
Cambridge without killing the network manager he gained admission into
the network group in 1989 to lead efforts in network and system
management. Sometimes it's easier to just fix the network. Today it's
anything goes from network design and construction to cranking
database applications and everything in between. Tom has also been an
instructor at Interop
for several years.
Ron (you don't look that old) has seen the MIT network grow
substantially beyond his ability to have instant recall on any record
in the MIT.EDU zone. Known sometimes as The Dancing Postmaster,
he's keen to have people learn to use the delete function
of their mail client. He would prefer to fix whatever it is with
a screwdriver if at all possible.
Iggy joined the group in 1991, from a previous position inspecting
vegitable gardens in the Boston Back Bay. He is likely the most
published iguana in the world, having appeared in both Scientific
American and Newsweek. Iggy passed away in May 1998.
Kretch is the most recent addition to the group, having joined in
1999. He works on the routers, external Internet connectivity and
writes software tools for network management.
Bob Mahoney (network engineer, 1995, bobmah@mit.edu)
Bob is no longer the most recent addition to our "violently excentric" group,
but came to us from the Network Support Services group. In his spare
time, he advocates for computer freedom, except for spammers.
Chris (Mr. Wireless), who so accommodatingly changed his
name from Tom to be hired into the group, is responsible for bringing
together the remote access "Tether" service and MIT's wireless LAN
infrastructure. Along with Jon Rochlis he teaches a class in wireless
technologies at Networld/Interop, Usenix, and SANS.
Jon, responsible for starting the early efforts on routing AppleTalk,
on line card catalogs, and network management, has moved on to lead
development efforts at OpenVision Technologies and BBN
Planet. Currently he is a consultant with SystemExperts where he designs
lots of things, analyzes system security issues, and makes a real
salary. Jon can be seen as an instructor at several conferences
including Usenix and Interop.
Anne Salemme (network engineer, 1998, salemme@mit.edu)
Anne joined the group in July 1998, after working in the Athena Server
Support group for awhile, and a few years in the
"private sector" at
The X Consortium and
Transarc.
She works mainly on Web-related services and shares
day-to-day 'postmaster@mit.edu' and other miscellaneous
duties with other members of the group.
She holds (tenaciously) the minority view that people who want to
complain about spam or unsolicited email or any other email-related
problem should complain to their own postmasters.
Complaining to sites that appear in the headers or body of a mail message
is a waste of time and energy, since those sites may have nothing to do
with the mail. One's local postmaster is the definitive place to complain.
In between the ARPAnet and booting multics stories, Jeff has
archictected the campus network and particpated in the designs of
various Athena services, including Kerberos. His role in operating the
network and Athena computing environment earned him the "big screw" in
1987. Jeff is also responsible for the delivery of the MIT Alumni Network Services system. He now
serves as the Security Area Director within the IESG and teaches at Interop.
Mark Silis '99 (senior systems programmer, 1999, mark@mit.edu)
Mark, is responsible for the current incarnation of the MIT web server , Solaris 7 network install, and anything else that came his way at the time. As history has once again proven, its very hard to
ever really leave.
Ted Ts'o '90 (senior systems programmer, 1990-1999, tytso@mit.edu)
Ted, responsible for network security and Kerberos development, also
particpated in the Integration process to ensure the proper architecture
and design of many of MIT's administrative and academic systems.
Stan was the author of TechMail for the Macintosh and is one of the
principals of Dimensional Insight
where he does serious Swedish massage on volumes of data, and shows Congress
where our tax dollars are going.
