Ben Zhao, 30.

ZHAO, Ben; COMPUTER networks; INFORMATION networks; COMPUTER industry; PEER-to-peer file sharing; INTERNET

The article features Ben Zhao, a computer network developer from the University of California in Santa Barbara. He aims to improve the Internet by perfecting peer-to-peer networks. He has created structured overlay peer-to-peer networks which are like the ones file-sharing services use, routing data directly between individual users over the Internet. Structured overlays have strict rules about which machines may talk to which. This allows them to route data more efficiently and to detect and sidestep failures more quickly.