Roger Wattenhofer Explained

Roger Wattenhofer
Birth Date:	17 November 1969
Birth Place:	Schwyz, Switzerland
Nationality:	Swiss
Fields:	Computer Science
Workplaces:	ETH Zurich, Brown University, Microsoft Research
Alma Mater:	ETH Zurich
Thesis Title:	Distributed Counting – How to Bypass Bottlenecks
Thesis Url:	https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-002015403
Thesis Year:	1998
Doctoral Advisor:	Peter Widmayer
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Roger Wattenhofer,^[1] born in 1969, is a Swiss computer scientist, active in the field of distributed computing, networking, and algorithms.^{[2] [3]} He is a professor at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) since 2001. He has published numerous research articles in computer science^{[4] [5]} and a book on Bitcoin.^[6]

In 2012, Wattenhofer won the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference.^[7] Together with Christian Decker in 2014,^[8] he uncovered that nearly 850,000 of the Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox could not have been stolen by malleability attacks, as claimed by Mt. Gox.^{[9] [10]} In 2017, he appeared in a movie about the Blockchain.^[11]

Selected publications

• Hong. Chi-Yao. Kandula. Srikanth. Mahajan. Ratul. Zhang. Ming. Gill. Vijay. Nanduri. Mohan. Wattenhofer. Roger. Achieving high utilization with software-driven WAN. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 27 August 2013. 43. 4. 15–26. 10.1145/2534169.2486012. 10.1.1.306.9382.
• Lenzen. Christoph. Locher. Thomas. Wattenhofer. Roger. Tight bounds for clock synchronization. Journal of the ACM. 1 January 2010. 57. 2. 1–42. 10.1145/1667053.1667057. 481610. free.
• Herlihy. Maurice. Kuhn. Fabian. Tirthapura. Srikanta. Wattenhofer. Roger. Dynamic Analysis of the Arrow Distributed Protocol. Theory of Computing Systems. 25 September 2006. 39. 6. 875–901. 10.1007/s00224-006-1251-9. 20.500.11850/24309 . 6126587.

External links

• Roger Wattenhofer's home page
• Mathematics Genealogy Project entry

Notes and References

1. http://dcg.ethz.ch/members/wroger.html Roger Wattenhofer's personal page
2. Web site: Biographies of Invited Speakers. 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing & Network Visualization.
3. Web site: Keynote by Prof. Roger Wattenhofer. ACM SenSys 2017.
4. http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wattenhofer:Roger Roger Wattenhofer's bibliography
5. Web site: Roger Wattenhofer. Google Scholar.
6. Book: Wattenhofer . Roger . The science of the blockchain . 2016 . Inverted Forest Publishing . 978-1-5227-5183-0.
7. [Idit Keidar]
8. Book: Decker. Christian. Wattenhofer. Roger. Computer Security - ESORICS 2014 . Bitcoin Transaction Malleability and MtGox . 1 January 2014. 8713. 313–326. English. 10.1007/978-3-319-11212-1_18. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 978-3-319-11211-4. 1403.6676. 14555943.
9. Web site: The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Debacle: An Update. 2015-11-03.
10. Web site: The Troubling Holes in MtGox's Account of How It Lost $600 Million in Bitcoins.
11. Web site: Roger Wattenhofer. IMDb.