Larry L. Peterson

Larry L. Peterson is an American computer scientist, known primarily as the Director of the PlanetLab Consortium, co-author (with Bruce Davie) of the networking textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach,"[1] and for his research on the TCP Vegas congestion control algorithm[2] and the x-kernel operating system.

and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Purdue University in 1982 and 1985 under Douglas Comer, respectively.

He then served as a professor at the University of Arizona, and later as the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he also served as a department chair from 2003 to 2009.

He is now emeritus at Princeton University, and serves as CTO of the Open Networking Foundation.

Peterson was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2010 for contributions to the design, implementation, and deployment of networked software systems.