David Wetherall is a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research on network systems has been awarded the ACM SIGCOMM Test-of- Time Award and the IEEE Bennett Prize. He is known for pioneering results on programmable networks, de-duplication, Internet mapping, and denial-of-service. Prof. Wetherall has taught computer networks to students for the past decade, and he is a co-author with Tanenbaum of the textbook “Computer Networks”. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT, and is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE.