Benjie Chen
benjie (at) csail.mit.edu

With Melina Fan, I co-founded Addgene in 2004, a non-profit organization that archives and distributes plasmids. Addgene aims to build a central repository of useful plasmids from published experiments. For more information, see our letter in Science or visit our website.

Bibliography

• Pastwatch: a Distributed Version Control System.
  Alexander Yip, Benjie Chen, Robert Morris.
  3rd NSDI. San Jose, CA. May, 2006.

• A central repository for published plasmids.
  Melina Fan, Judy Tsai, Benjie Chen, Kenneth Fan, Josh LaBaer.
  Science. 2005 Mar 25;307(5717):1877. Pubmed 15790830.

• Building Data Structures on Untrusted Peer-to-Peer Storage with Per-participant Logs.
  Benjie Chen, Thomer Gil, Athicha Muthitacharoen, and Robert Morris.
  Extended Abstract. 22nd PODC. Boston, Massachusetts. July, 2003.

• Certifying Program Execution with Secure Processors.
  Benjie Chen and Robert Morris.
  9th HotOS. Lihue, Hawaii. May 2003. Talk.

• Ivy: A Read/Write Peer-to-peer File System.
  Athicha Muthitacharoen, Robert Morris, Thomer Gil, and Benjie Chen.
  5th OSDI. Boston, MA. December 2002.

• Programming Language Optimizations for Modular Router Configurations.
  Eddie Kohler, Robert Morris, and Benjie Chen.
  10th ASPLOS. San Jose, CA. October, 2002.

• Span: an Energy-Efficient Coordination Algorithm for Topology Maintenance in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks.
  Benjie Chen, Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan, and Robert Morris.
  ACM Wireless Networks Journal, Volume 8, Number 5, September, 2002.

• L+: Scalable Landmark Routing and Address Lookup for Multi-hop Wireless Networks.
  Benjie Chen and Robert Morris.
  MIT LCS Technical Report 837. March, 2002.

• A Low-bandwidth Network File System.
  Athicha Muthitacharoen, Benjie Chen, and David Mazieres.
  18th SOSP. Banff, Canada. October, 2001.

• Span: an Energy-Efficient Coordination Algorithm for Topology Maintenance in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks.
  Benjie Chen, Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan, and Robert Morris.
  7th MOBICOM. Rome, Italy. July, 2001. Talk.

• Flexible Control of Parallelism in a Multiprocessor PC Router.
  Benjie Chen and Robert Morris.
  2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. June, 2001. Talk.

• The Click Modular Router.
  Eddie Kohler, Robert Morris, Benjie Chen, John Jannotti, and M. Frans Kaashoek.
  ACM Transaction on Computer Systems, Volume 18, Number 3 (August 2000).

Theses:

• A Serverless Wide-Area Version Control System
  Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. May, 2004.
  (This is a modified version of the submitted thesis).

• Multiprocessing with the Exokernel Operating System.
  M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Feb, 2000.