Simon Peter Systems Group Institute for Pervasive Computing Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich

Address: ETH Zürich Institute for Pervasive Computing CAB F 72 Universitaetstrasse 6 8092 Zurich Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 72 58 E-Mail: speter@inf.ethz.ch

About me

I am a Ph.D. student in the Systems Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, since June 2007. Prior to that I graduated (Dipl.-Inf.) from the Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany in 2006 with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Music. Just before starting my Ph.D. studies, I spent 10 months in the USA, both on the east (Computer and Network Systems, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA) and the west coast (Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of California, Riverside) as a visiting researcher. In 2008 and 2009, I accomplished two internships, both of them at Microsoft Research. The first in Cambridge, UK, the second in Mountain View, CA.

I was born in Oldenburg, situated in north-west Germany, and enjoyed living a good deal of my youth in the cozy area of Bad Zwischenahn.

These days, I work mainly within the Barrelfish operating system project.

Vita and Publications

Please read my CV if you're really interested.

Research

I am particularly interested in operating systems... Apart from that, I also enjoy distributed systems and programming languages with a little graph theory on the side.

Teaching

• Fall Term 2010: Advanced Operating Systems

• Fall Term 2009: Advanced Operating Systems

• Spring Term 2009: Advanced Operating Systems

• Spring Term 2008: Advanced Operating Systems

• Fall Term 2007: Advanced Topics in Operating System Kernel Design

Personal

Apart from CS, I enjoy doing music (I used to play the violin for a long time and do all sorts of stuff with the computer). I also enjoy going skiing in the winter.

In my teenage years, I used to be active in the Demoscene, a computer art subculture and I have fond memories of the good old times.