Beverly I. Schwartz

Software Engineer

BBN Technologies
10 Moulton Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Office: 617-873-2453
Fax: 617-873-6091
Email: bschwart@bbn.com
URL: http://www.ir.bbn.com/~bschwart

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1989.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, summa cum laude, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, May 1985.
Northfield Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, June 1979.

Research and Professional Interests

Protocol design and implementation; Distributed computing; Object-oriented programming techniques; GUI design; UNIX system programming; Unix kernel programming.

Honors and Societies

Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society, Tufts University.
Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Tufts University.

Work Experience

BBN Technologies, Cambridge Massachusetts, September 1989 until present.

Internetwork Research

Spindle: test environment support, redesign and implementation. Spindle developed new routing algorithms for Delay/Default Tolerant Networking (DTN).
Flytrap: algorithm research, protocol design, software prototyping. Flytrap detects stepping-stone chains in a sparsely instrumented network.
STARLITE: software development leadership, protocol design, system and software architecture, software implementation, code review process. STARLITE combines SPIE technology and multiple stepping-stone algorithms to trace a malicious attack back to the source of a stepping-stone chain.
Source Path Isolation Engine (SPIE): software development leadership, protocol design, system and software architecture, software implementation, code review process. SPIE uses a hash-based technique for tracing back the source of a single recently delivered packet in an IP network. [software]
Simulation Tools: Technical contributor to an instruction level simulator for a new processor.
PPP Port: As a BBN contractor to another company, ported a third party PPP package to the company's router product.
Flexible Intra-AS Routing Environment (FIRE): software development leadership, protocol design, system and software architecture, software implementation. FIRE provides a highly customizable environment for running many routing algorithms at once.
Smart Packets: software development leadership, protocol design, language design, system and software architecture, software implementation. Smart Packets is an Active Networks project which provides two languages, Sprocket and Spanner, for putting very compactly coded programs into a single unfragmented packet for doing network management tasks. [software]
Multicast Test Tools for RITN : Developed tools which send, receive and track multicast packets, with the option of using RSVP.

Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding

GUI development for ATIS, a speech recognition tool for recognizing queries about flight information.
GUI development for a tool which uses a natural language understanding engine to aid in filing intelligence reports.
Participated in design of an API for natural language applications which aids collaborative work among natural language research entities.

Advanced Distributed Simulation

CVCC: protocol design, software architecture, GUI design, software implementation. CVCC is a suite of distributed simulation applications created to determine the potential utility of computer-assisted communications in tank warfare.
IVIS: project leadership, software architecture, GUI design, software implementation. IVIS, part of the CVCC suite, allows a tank commander to efficiently communicate battle information to the Battalion Tactical Operations Center.

GCA Corporation, Andover Massachusetts, July 1985 until January 1989.

Engineering Department

Developed text-based user interfaces to control the GCA Wafer Stepper, photolithography equipment for the semi-conductor industry.

Management Information Services

Developed non-Y2K compliant MIS applications.

Other Experience

Powderhouse Square Condominium Trust, Board of Trustees, October 1992 until November 1997, President of the Board, November 1995 until November 1997.

Took leadership role in communicating information about building defects, and having the defects corrected.
Took significant role in resolving conflicts between trustees, management company, and owners.
Took responsibility for learning about all aspects of condominium living, and communicated that information to other owners and trustees.

Publications

Magazine Articles

Partridge, C., W. T. Strayer, Beverly I. Schwartz, and A. W. Jackson, "Commentaries on `Active Networking and End-to-End Arguments'," IEEE Network, Vol. 12, No. 3, May/June 1998. [pdf]

Refereed Technical Journal Articles

Alex C. Snoeren, Craig Partridge, Luis A. Sanchez, Christine E. Jones, Fabrice Tchakountio, Beverly Schwartz, Stephen T. Kent, and W. Timothy Strayer, "Single-Packet IP Traceback," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 10, No. 6, Dec 2002, pp. 721-734. [postscript] / [pdf]

Partridge, C., A. C. Snoeren, W. T. Strayer, Beverly Schwartz, M. Condell, and I. Castineyra, "FIRE: Flexible Intra-AS Routing Environment," Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 19, No. 3, March 2001, pp. 410-425. [pdf]

Schwartz, Beverly I., A. W. Jackson, W. T. Strayer, W. Zhou, R. D. Rockwell, and C. Partridge, "Smart Packets: Applying Active Networks to Network Management," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2000, pp. 67-88. [postscript] / [pdf]

Refereed Conference Articles

Partridge, C., A. C. Snoeren, W. T. Strayer, Beverly Schwartz, M. Condell, and I. Castineyra, "FIRE: Flexible Intra-AS Routing Environment," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Stockholm, Sweden, August 28-September 1, 2000. [postscript] / [pdf]

Schwartz, Beverly I., W. Zhou, A. W. Jackson, W. T. Strayer, D. Rockwell, and C. Partridge, "Smart Packets for Active Networks," Proceedings of InfoComm, New York, 1999. [postscript]

Technical Memos

Schwartz, Beverly, "A History of the BBN Piano," BBN-TM-1296, August 3, 2001. [postscript] / [pdf]

Partridge, C., I. Castineyra, Beverly Schwartz and F. Tchakountio, "FIRE Large Data Transfer Protocol," BBN-TM-1265, November 16, 2000. [pdf]

Partridge, C., I. Castineyra, W. T. Strayer, A. Snoeren, and Beverly Schwartz, "FLINT Protocol Specification," BBN-TM-1243, July 12, 2000. [pdf]

Partridge, C., I. Castineyra, W. T. Strayer, A. Snoeren, and Beverly Schwartz, "FIRE State Message Protocol Specification," BBN-TM-1245, July 12, 2000. [pdf]

Schwartz, Beverly I., and A. W. Jackson, "Overview of Languages for the Smart Packets Project," BBN-TM-1219, September 27, 1999. [pdf]

Schwartz, Beverly I., "Introduction to Spanner: Assembly Language for the Smart Packets Project," BBN-TM-1220, September 27, 1999. [pdf]

Schwartz, Beverly I., "Sprocket Language Description for the Smart Packets Project," BBN-TM-1221, September 27, 1999. [pdf]

Schwartz, Beverly I., "Justification for Various Sprocket and Spanner Design Decisions," BBN-TM-1222, September 27, 1999. [pdf]

Jackson, A. W., W. Zhou, and Beverly I. Schwartz, "Smart Packets (SPKT) Header," BBN-TM-1223, September 27, 1999. [pdf]

Technical Skills

C++, C, Java, Perl, TCL, bash, UNIX system programming

Real Life...

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