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Current Position

PETER WAN is a Research Scientist in the College of Computing's Computing and Network Services group headed by David Leonard. Peter received a Bachelor of Science in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 1980. As part of his graduate work, Peter worked on the Clouds distributed operating systems research project. He became a System Support Specialist in 1982 and was the CSNET technical liaison as well as the manager of the GT/ICS Software Tools Project.

Previous Positions

Before rejoining the staff of the College of Computing (it was the School of Information and Computer Science when he was a student and a Systems Support Specialist), Peter worked at Atlanta-based Medical Systems Development Corporation (MsdC) as a senior systems programmer on a project to build a large-scale UNIX-based medical information system. Before working at MsdC, Peter was a Vice President at Computer Systems Resources, Inc. (CSRI), an Atlanta-based consulting/training company which built a law office automation system on UNIX-based computers.

Research Interests

Peter's research interests include Berkeley-based operating systems (at home, he uses the system distributed by Berkeley Software Design, Inc.); computer and network security (check out the archives for COAST); cryptosystems (especially public key/asymmetric systems like PGP); and distributed software maintenance (with packages like depot, lude, or lfu).

Professional Affiliations

Peter is a member of the following professional organizations:

Outside Interests

When he isn't surfing the net, reading news/mail, or compiling something, Peter likes to dabble in photography, investing, performance driving, bowling, and supporting organizations like the Fernbank Museum of Natural History.

Information of Interest

Click here to get Peter's PGP 2.6.2 public key.
Click here to see Peter's hotlist.
Click here to see the table of contents of the Georgia Tech Computer and Network Usage Policy.
Click here to see the table of contents of the Georgia Computer Systems Protection Act.
Click here to see where Peter would rather be right now.

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Contact Information:

Peter N. Wan, Research Scientist
College of Computing, Room 213
Georgia Institute of Technology
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
+1 404 894 4736 Office
peter.wan@cc.gatech.edu, postmaster@cc.gatech.edu, usenet@cc.gatech.edu

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Last Modified: June 17, 2002 by Peter Wan (peter.wan@cc.gatech.edu)
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