Seth Proctor Member of Technical Staff
Project Darkstar Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
1 Network Drive, Building #2 ubur02-311 Burlington, MA 01803
Seth Proctor has worked in Sun's research labs since 1999 focusing on how systems scale. This research has included aspects of security, privacy, usability, management, distributed computing, social systems, policy and networking. Previously an active member of the Internet Security Research Group, the Principal Investigator for Venice and an independent consultant for numerous labs projects, Seth is focused today on Project Darkstar and how to build massive horizontally-scaled low-latency systems. During his time in Sun's research labs Seth has led several university collaborations, participated in standards organizations, and contributed to many open source projects including the SunXACML package which he created in 2003. He has published 7 papers and participates regularly on academic and industrial workshop or journal program committees.
Seth graduated with Honors from Brown University (ScB) in Computer Science, and did his Senior Thesis on performance and security in Active Networking and Distributed Systems. Active research interests include Security, Privacy, Usable and Managable Decentralized Systems, Networking, Distributed Computing, and Languages. Before joining the research labs, Seth worked for Sun to develop a new standards-based streaming media server.
