Robert Surton

burgess@cs.cornell.edu

I am a PhD candidate in computer science at Cornell University. I received my Bachelor's degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2007. I changed my name from Robert Burgess to Robert Surton on midsummer's day 2009, when I married my wonderful partner, Elizabeth.

People

My advisor is Robbert van Renesse. My other committee members are Nate Foster, Bruce Levitt, and Ken Birman.

Projects

TCPR

A TCP connection recovery tool that was needed in the context of a larger, ongoing project with Cisco Systems to produce a highly available backbone Internet router.