Computer Systems

The computer systems faculty are active in most traditional systems fields, including operating systems, system security, and distributed systems. The faculty has a long tradition of tackling fundamental, long-term research problems in computer science through designing, building and learning from complete computer systems, dating back at least as far as the work of Niklaus Wirth on Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, the tradition continues through contributions such as the research operating system Barrelfish, the work on new internet architectures in SCION, the research computer Enzian, and many more.