Golden Owl for Timothy Roscoe
Professor Timothy Roscoe, head of the Network and Operating Systems Group at the Department of Computer Science, has been awarded the Golden Owl 2024. The distinction honours lecturers for their excellent teaching. Congratulations!
Timothy Roscoe, Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, has been honoured with this year's Golden Owl award. Presented by the student association VSETH, the Golden Owl recognises outstanding teaching and encourages continued excellence. Each year, one lecturer from each department is chosen to receive this prestigious award. The winners were presented with their award by the president of VSETH during the ETH Day ceremony on 16 November. This is the second time Timothy Roscoe has received the Golden Owl.
Timothy Roscoe has been a Full Professor in the Systems Group at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich since 2007. He works on operating systems, networks, and distributed systems, in particular on the Enzian research computer and its applications.
He earned his PhD in 1995 from the University of Cambridge, where he was a principal designer of the Nemesis OS. After three years at a North Carolina startup, he joined Sprint's Advanced Technology Lab in California in 1998, working on cloud computing and network monitoring, while collaborating with UC Berkeley's Oceanstore project. In 2002, he became a principal architect of PlanetLab at Intel Research Berkeley and worked on Declarative Networking. In 2006, he spent four months as a visiting researcher at National ICT Australia, contributing to the seL4 microkernel development. Since joining ETH Zurich he has also spent time at Microsoft Research, Intel Research, and the University of Washington.
He was named Fellow of the ACM in 2013 for contributions to operating systems and networking research. Timothy Roscoe’s current research centers on Enzian, a powerful hybrid CPU/FPGA machine designed for research into systems software.