Armando Fox

Co-founder of the Berkeley RAD Lab and co-designer of the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor, Fox has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. Prior to that he joined Stanford as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and received his PhD, MS, and BS degrees at Berkeley, Illinois, and MIT respectively.

His research interests include applied statistical machine learning and cloud computing. Fox is a co-author of the position paper "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing" and has frequently lectured on this topic. He has published several papers in collaboration with top machine learning researchers on the application of machine learning to diagnosing, characterizing, and identifying operational problems in datacenter-scale and cloud computing installations.

His 2003 collaboration with David Patterson on Recovery-Oriented Computing earned Fox the distinction of being included in the "Scientific American 50" top researchers. In previous endeavors he worked on micro-rebooting, a process that could protect networks from disastrous crashes in individual servers. He also helped design the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor and founded a company to commercialize his UC Berkeley dissertation research on mobile computing.

In addition to many articles and technical reports, Fox is co-author of "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing," a paper that drew significant attention and spelled out some early challenges and benefits of high performance computing clouds.