News

May 14, 2013: David Choffnes, a Ph.D. alumni from our lab has accepted a professor position at the College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, starting Fall 2013. Congrats Dave, we are all very proud of you!

Feb 14, 2013: Our latest blog post on comparing broadband services on users' terms — the first in a series about comparing ISPs — was mentioned in this week's EECS newsletter.

Feb 14, 2013: In a recent article, MakeUseOf suggested installing namehelp to improve Internet performance. Thanks for recommendation!

Nov 16, 2012: John Otto presented his Content Delivery and the Natural Evolution of DNS at IMC 2012 at Boston University today!

Nov 13, 2012: Check out our new namehelp coverage map! We now have over 12,500 users in 125 different countries!

Oct 26, 2012: After a writeup on namehelp in McCormick News yesterday, we've been covered in ACM TechNews, Computerworld, Networkworld, to name a few. In addition, there's quite a bit of buzz on Twitter! Join our >600 users (so far) and install namehelp today!

Oct 9, 2012: The best sort of news! We have released namehelp—a new DNS resolver that runs in your local machine and let you get the best possible Web performance whatever the DNS resolver you choose to use. Our upcoming IMC paper describes the work behind it. Download and check it out!

Sep 11, 2012: Check out our new combined platform coverage map! As of today, we have over 1.5 million installations reporting from nearly 7.4 million different IP addresses.

Aug 24, 2012: Our latest ACM SIGCOMM W-MUST paper, "Up, Down and Around the Stack: ISP Characterization From Network Intensive Applications", has been selected for publication in the SIGCOMM CCR issue dedicated to the SIGCOMM proceedings!

Aug 22, 2012: Fabián has been invited to be in the Editorial Board for ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR).

Aug 20, 2012: Fabián and John Douceur are co-chairing the 12th IEEE P2P Conference to be held in Tarragona, Spain. We have a fantastic PC and a very exciting program.

Jul 3, 2012: Thanks Google! We have received a new Faculty Research Award.

Jun 23, 2012: Fabián will be chairing a session at SIGCOMM 2012 and has been invited to participate in a couple of panels at two of the associated workshops (MobiGames and W-MUST).

May 23, 2012: Fabián will give the keynote speaker at the Global Future Internet Summit in Seoul, South Korea in Sep. 13! Last year speakers included Van Jacobson, Guru Parulkar and Kevin Fall.

May 17, 2012: Congratulations to John S. Otto for passing his proposal!

Apr 5, 2012: Crowd (Soft) Control: Moving Beyond the Opportunistic, a paper by John Rula and Fabián Bustamante presented at HotMobile 2012, was written about in Discovery News, Wired, and MSNBC. Original story here.

Feb 8, 2012: John Otto presented some of AquaLab's latest work at the CAIDA AIMS workshop.

Jan 5, 2012: The results for the Apps For Metro Chicago Grand Challenge are in -- and our TrailBlaze app took second place! Congratulations again to students John Rula and Ted Stein!

Aug 23, 2011: Congratulations to students John Rula and Ted Stein for placing fourth in the Apps For Metro Chicago Challenge. Their app TrailBlaze Chicago helps bikers living in the Chicago area by showing city officials where new bike paths are needed most. View the entire story.