International Visitor Programme
We try each year to invite leading researchers and practitioners from
our main research areas to visit our department and interact with staff and
students.
John Sechrest (2004)
John Sechrest formerly of
Oregon State University has been an activist for System Administration
Education. John collaborated with us in developing virtual machine
management concepts and in extending the use of cfengine for adaptive
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Jan Bergstra (2005)
Jan Bergstra of
the University of Amsterdam. Jan held posts at the Institute of
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Leiden
(1976-82), and the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
in Amsterdam. In 1985 he was appointed Professor of Programming and
Software Engineering at the University of Amsterdam and, at the same
time, Professor of Applied Logic at Utrecht University.
Jan spent time at OUC discussing the
Handbook of Network and System Administration and Promise Theory.
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Æleen Frisch (2006)
Æleen Frisch has been a system administrator for over 20 years,
tending a plethora of VMS, Unix, and Windows systems over the
years. She is also a writer, lecturer, teacher, marketing
consultant and occasional database programmer. She has written eight
books, including Essential System Administration (now in its third
edition), Essential Windows NT System Administration and the Windows
2000 Desktop Reference (all from O'Reilly Media, Inc.) and Exploring
Chemistry with Electronic Structure Methods (Gaussian,
Inc.). leen was the conference chair for USENIX LISA 2003.
Apart from contributing many lectures to our Masters degree programme,
she worked on the design of cfengine 3.
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Lee Damon (2007)
Lee Damon
(alias "nomad") has been a UNIX system administrator since 1985 and
has been active in SAGE (The System Administrator Guild) since its
inception. He co-developed departmental and company-wide UNIX
environments for IBM TJ Watson Research, GulfStream Aerospace and
QUALCOMM. Lee was the conference chair for USENIX LISA 2004.
Lee spent his sabbatical in Oslo interacting with our students
and local companies.
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