Kimberly C. "KC" Claffy is director of the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis at the University of California, San Diego. In 2017 she was awarded the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award and inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019.
Kimberly Claffy | |
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 Claffy speaking in 2019 | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University University of California, San Diego |
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| Institutions | University of California, San Diego |
| Thesis | Internet traffic characterization (1994) |
Early life and education
editClaffy studied symbolic systems at Stanford University. She earned her doctoral degree under the supervision of George Polyzos at the University of California, San Diego in 1994.[1][2] Claffy was a summer intern at AT&T, Harry Diamond Laboratories and the Federal Reserve. Her years in graduate school occurred during the period in which the federal government of the United States relaxed control over the Internet. The Internet became a more commercial entity interconnecting a rapidly-increasing number of networks, hosts and users, and as the World Wide Web expanded, the nature of the traffic on the Internet changed.[3] This inspired Claffy to develop initiatives that share Internet data and support Internet data analysis.[3]
Research and career
editClaffy was promoted to associate research scientist in 1994 and research scientist in 2007. In 1996 Claffy founded the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) in the supercomputing centre at the University of California, San Diego.[4][5] At the CAIDA Claffy works on internet cartography that characterises the changing nature of Internet topology and Internet traffic dynamics.[6] This involves mapping and measuring internet data in an effort to make the internet safer for the general public.[7] Claffy is part of the Named Data Networking project.[8][9]
In 2015, Claffy shared the IEEE Internet Award with Vern Paxson for "seminal contributions to the field of Internet measurement, including security and network data analysis, and for distinguished leadership in and service to the Internet community by providing open-access data and tools".[10] Her work established definitions for the concept of Internet "traffic flows", in which most packets flowing across the Internet are understood to be part of a connection with coherent characteristics, rather than isolated, unconnected messages.[11]
In 2019, Claffy was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for her groundbreaking work in the field of internet measurement and analysis.[12] She was awarded an National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator planning grant to evaluate the feasibility of creating an open knowledge network on the properties of the Internet identifier system.[13][14]
Awards and honors
edit- 2000 San Francisco Women on the Web Top 25 Women of the Web[15]
- 2015 IEEE Internet Award[16]
- 2016 N2Women 10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know[17]
- 2017 Internet Society Jonathan B. Postel Service Award[7]
- 2018 π Person of the Year[18]
- 2019 Internet Hall of Fame[12][19]
Selected publications
edit- Claffy, KC (November 6, 2002). "Code-Red: A Case Study on the Spread and Victims of an Internet Worm". Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement. 273–284. doi:10.1145/637201.637244. S2CID 3981146.
- Claffy, KC (October 25, 2004). "Transport layer identification of P2P traffic". Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement. Vol. 121–134. p. 121. doi:10.1145/1028788.1028804. ISBN 1581138210. S2CID 1975295.
- Claffy, KC (November 24, 2003). "Bandwidth Estimation: Metrics, Measurement Techniques, and Tools". IEEE Network. 27–35 (6): 27–35. doi:10.1109/MNET.2003.1248658. S2CID 2285399.
References
edit- ^ Analysis, CAIDA: Center for Applied Internet Data. "Kimberly Claffy / kc claffy". CAIDA. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "Internet Society Honors CAIDA Director with Prestigious Service Award | Computer Science and Engineering". cse.ucsd.edu. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ a b "A Brief History of NSF and the Internet". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "Women who rule the web: kc claffy | British Council". www.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ Analysis, CAIDA: Center for Applied Internet Data. "Staff Profile - Kimberly Claffy (kc claffy)". CAIDA. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "Researcher Spotlight: KC Claffy". www.sdsc.edu. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ a b "The story of kc claffy and measuring the Internet - 2017 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award winner". Internet Society. November 15, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "Background: kc claffy". Named Data Networking (NDN). Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "Named Data Networking Tech Report 001". Named Data Networking (NDN). Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "IEEE Internet Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 25, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
- ^ "IEEE Internet Award Recipients". IEEE. Archived from the original on November 22, 2018. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
- ^ a b "CAIDA's KC Claffy Inducted Into Internet Hall of Fame". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "SDSC, UC San Diego Awarded Two NSF Convergence Accelerator Grants". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1937165 - Convergence Accelerator Phase I (RAISE): Knowledge of Internet Structure: Measurement, Epistemology, and Technology (KISMET)". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ SFWOW (January 31, 2000). "TOP 25 WOMEN ON THE WEB". SFGate. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "SDSC's kc claffy Receives Annual IEEE Internet Award". www.sdsc.edu. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "KC Claffy among "10 Women to Know in Networking/Communications"". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "SDSC Innovators" (PDF). SDSC. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ^ "Kimberly Claffy | Internet Hall of Fame". www.internethalloffame.org. Retrieved December 2, 2019.