John Guttag

Position: Faculty

Office: 32-G966

Phone:253-6022

E-mail: guttag@csail.mit.edu

Research Directorate(s): Systems

URL: http://nms.csail.mit.edu/~guttag/

Biography:

From January of 1999 through August of 2004, Professor Guttag served as Head of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He served as Associate Department Head from Computer Science from 1993 to 1998. EECS, with approximately 1800 students and

125 faculty members, is the largest department at MIT.

Professor Guttag currently co-heads the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Networks and Mobile Systems Group. This group studies issues related to computer networks, applications of networked and mobile systems, and advanced software-based medical instrumentation and decision systems.

Professor Guttag has also done research, published, and lectured in the areas of software engineering, mechanical theorem proving, hardware verification, compilation, and software radios.

In addition to his academic activities, Professor Guttag has had long-term consulting relationships with a number of industrial research and advanced development organizations. He has also worked for many years as a consultant specializing in the analysis of

information systems related business opportunities and risks. He currently serves on the technical advisory boards of Vanu, Inc. and IMLogic, on the Board of Directors of Empirix, Inc. and Avid Technology, Inc., and on the Board of Trustees of the MGH Institute of

Health Professions. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Prof. Guttag earned an A.B. in English and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

Recent and/or Significant Publications:

A. Qureshi , A. Shoeb, and J. Guttag, "Building a High-Quality Mobile Telemedicine System Using Network Striping over Dissimilar Wireless Wide Area Networks," 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2005.

A. Shoeb, S. Schachter , D. Schomer , B. Bourgeois , S. Treves , and J. Guttag , "Detecting Seizure Onset in the Ambulatory Setting: Demonstrating Feasibility," 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, September 2005.

A. Qureshi and J. Guttag, "Horde: Separating Network Striping Policy from Mechanism," MobiSys 2005, June 2005.

J. Guttag (ed.), The Electron and the Bit, EECS at MIT 1902-2002, May 2005.

G. Tan and J. Guttag, "'The 802.11 MAC Protocol Leads to

Inefficient Equilibria," IEEE INFOCOM 2005, March 2005.

A. Shoeb, B. Bourgeois; T. Treves, and J. Guttag, "Patient-Specific Seizure Onset Detection to Optimize Ictal SPECT," American Epilepsy Society 58th Annual Meeting, December 2004.

A. Shoeb, H. Edwards; J. Connolly; B. Bourgeois; T. Treves, and J. Guttag, "Patient-Specific Epileptic Seizure Onset Detection," 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Society, September 2004.

G. Tan and J. Guttag, "Long-term Time-share Guarantees are Necessary for WLANs," 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop, September 2004.

A. Shoeb, H. Edwards; J. Connolly; B. Bourgeois; T. Treves, and J. Guttag, "Patient-Specific Seizure Onset Detection," Epilepsy and Behavior, August 2004.

G. Tan and J. Guttag, "Time-based Fairness Improves Performance in Multi-rate WLANs," 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2004.

J. Guttag, "Abstract Data Types, Then and Now", Software Pioneers, Contributions to Software Engineering, Springer-Verlag, (2002).

G. Tan, A. Miu, J. Guttag and H. Balakrishnan, Forming Scatternets from Bluetooth Personal Area Networks, MIT-LCS-TR-826, October 2001.

V. Bose, M. Ismert, M. Welborn, J. Guttag, "Virtual Radios," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, October 1999.

D. Wetherall, J. Guttag, and D. Tennenhouse, "Network Services Without the Red Tape," IEEE Computer, April 1999.

D. Wetherall, U. Legedza, and J. Guttag, "Introducing New Internet Services: Why and How," IEEE Network, July/August 1998.

J.V. Guttag and J.J. Horning (with S.J. Garland, K.D. Jones, A. Modet, and J.M. Wing), Larch: Languages and Tools for Formal Specification, Springer-Verlag (1993).

J.V. Guttag, "Abstract Data Types and the Development of Data Structures," Communications of the ACM, vol. 20, no. 6 (1977).

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Fellow 2005
• ACM - Fellow 2006