Bruce MacDowell Maggs is an American

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and

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Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

whose research interests include computer networks, distributed systems, and computer security. He was a founding employee and served as vice president for Research and Development for

Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American company specialized in content delivery networkJ. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl. (CDN), cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and cloud services. It is headquartered in ...

. He is currently the Director of Engineering at Emerald Innovations, Inc.

Biography

Maggs earned his B.S. (1985), M.S (1986), and Ph.D. (1989) from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

. After graduating, he worked for NEC Research Institute as a research scientist. In 1994, he joined the

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department at

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, rising to the rank of full professor with

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. In 1998, Maggs took three semesters off of teaching to become a founding employee of the then-startup

(

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: AKAM). While at Akamai, he became Vice President of Research and Development. He currently serves as Vice President of Research for the company. From 1998 to 1999, Maggs was on the faculty of

as a Visiting Associate Professor. In 2007, Maggs joined the faculty of

, where he is currently the Pelham Wilder Professor of Computer Science. He holds a dual appointment to the

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department of Duke's

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. He is currently on leave from

to serve as the Director of Engineering at Emerald Innovations, Inc.

Personal life

Bruce Maggs is the brother of Federal Judge Gregory E. Maggs.

Other achievements

Apart from leading the early engineering efforts for Akamai, Maggs was a co-creator of ''

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'', a popular early multiplayer online game developed at the

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in the late 1970s.

Recognition

Maggs was elected as an

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in 2018 for "contributions to the development of content distribution networks and the theory of computer networks".

References

External links

Bruce Maggs's Homepage

An Interview with Bruce Maggs, vice-president for R&D at Akamai Tech
- Mihai Budiu, ''Netreport'', March 2001 Carnegie Mellon University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Duke University faculty 2018 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery {{compu-scientist-stub