Michael Tucker 617.460.6574

Winter at Eliot

Feel free to call me Michael or Mike. Looking for me? You will probably find me at work! I work full-time for a software company called Endeca. I have also been extending my research from senior year by participating in the construction of three research datablock storage systems under the direction of Prof. Seltzer as part of SYRAH, SYstems Research At Harvard.

Over the past five years I have taken some great vacations. I have been to the Canary Islands, Paris, Italy, the West Coast, Chicago, and Spain. When I have time, which means it will never happen, I will post some pictures. If you have questions about any of these places, let me know. Although I have graduated, my work at Harvard still has managed to keep me busy. I divide my on-campus time between Eliot House tutoring, and various projects around the CS department. Other than research, I try to keep an eye on what is going on in the intro course: Computer Science 50. In the 2007-2008 school year I was a Teaching Fellow for both CS50 and CS51.

The summer before my senior year, I stayed in Cambridge working with Lex Stein in the Computer Science department at Harvard. We are designing a distributed file system called the Eliot File System that depends on an untrusted Peer-to-Peer substrate called The Charles. That Fall I continued my research, and proceeded to write my undergraduate thesis on the performance characteristics of distributed storage systems.

For my thesis, I gathered data using a simulation built with the SSFNet simulation framework. I have recently set up an open mailing list to support SSFNet users, please consider subscribing if you use or are interested in learning more about SSFNet.

For the past many summers, I have been part of a team that prepared the printed version of the Eliot House Face Book. Puritan Press printed the book for us, after we dropped off the proof at their infamous Purple Mailbox.

Speaking of faces, you can see what I looked like when I shaved. Never fear, I have since returned to maximal scruffiness.

Use Windows and need to connect to a secure UNIX server? Download an SSH client here. Like U2? Listen to their new song Electrical Storm.

I still think that George W. Bush's presidency has been a Miserable Failure. You don't need to read a George Bush biography to understand the negative impact his foreign and domestic policy has had on our country. Well, at the very least, if you are not pro-Bush, then make a similar link on your page to support the Google hack :-). Putting the Hack aside, I agree with Craig Newmark, the founder of craigslist, that the media is not doing an adequate job of holding this administration accountable for their actions.

Politics aside, I am a Bostonian with a love of bars and pubs (go figure). You can read about the good, the bad, and the ugly at this blog about pubs in Boston.

I will slowly collect pictures and keep them on the official Michael Tucker picture page. Woohoo!