Glenn Scott Senior Researcher, Principal Investigator
Celeste Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
16 Network Circle umpk16-162 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Glenn Scott has been with Sun Microsystems for 15 years working on a wide array of concepts, projects and products in varying roles as engineer, researcher, and manager in several Sun Microsystems organizations.
In his current role in Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Scott is focused on the concepts and problems arising from secure computing in unsecured public environments. As Principle Investigator on the Supernet project, Scott lead the research on solving problems of using public networking infrastructure to provide a secure synthetic enterprise network. Currently, he is Principle Investigator on the project Celeste, creating a massive, secured, distributed storage system out of tens to millions of disparate unsecured, untrusted computers.
Prior to this, Scott was the Director of Engineering and the Chief Technologist for the Internet Commerce and Security business unit of SunSoft, which was responsible for creating and developing security and electronic commerce products and technologies.
Previously, Scott was a founding member of the Internet Commerce Group, an incubator-style business formed within Sun Microsystems Laboratories focusing on technology and product development for conducting business over the Internet.
Prior to joining Sun in 1990, Scott was with System Development Corporation's Santa Monica Research Center as a researcher in formal methods of software development, automatic theorem provers, and trusted operating systems.
Scott is a graduate of Chapman University, with an academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Applied Linguistics.
