Joshua B. Leners
About Me
I am a fourth year Computer Science graduate student at the University of
Texas at Austin. I work in the Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research (LASR). As an undergrad, I
attended The University of Chicago where I received a
B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science. In my off time I do Krav Maga.
The better this site looks the more I am procrastinating.
You can reach me by email at leners@cs.utexas.edu.
Publications
Detecting failures in distributed systems with the FALCON spy network
Joshua B. Leners, Hao Wu, Wei-Lun Hung, Marcos K. Aguilera, and Michael Walfish
To appear in 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
SOSP 2011 Cascais, Portugal, October 2011 [Project page]
It's On Me! The
Benefit of Altruism in BAR Environments
Edmund Wong, Joshua B. Leners, and Lorenzo Alvisi
24th International Symposium on Distributed Computing
DISC 2010 Boston, MA, September 2010
Useful Links
Valgrind: How to deal with memory errors
git: The fast version control system
Erlang: A fun parallel functional programming
language
Classes
Autumn 2008 Theory and Practice of Secure Systems
Autumn 2008 Wireless Networks
Spring 2009 Distributed Systems
Autumn 2009 Cryptography
Autumn 2009 Game Theory I
Spring 2010 Game Theory II
Autumn 2010 Operating Systems Implementation
Autumn 2011 Data Mining: A mathematical perspective
Unsolicited Advice/Opinions
Leslie Lamport gives brief and excellent talk advice [mirror]
Royden's Real Analysis is the single greatest book in mathematics
Sometimes it's okay to rely on syncrony