bio

Glenn Fowler is an AT&T Fellow and Technology Leader in the Network Services Research Center at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, New Jersey. He started work with AT&T Bell Labs in the Electronic Power Systems Laboratory in 1979, and after a year went back for a PhD in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, completed in 1984, and returned to Bell Labs in the Advanced Software Department. Since then he has worked with essentially the same colleagues (ignoring the one year "sabbatical" with Vitesse in 1985.)

Glenn has been involved with research on software configuration management, portability, algorithms, and ease of use. He is the author of nmake, a configurable ANSI C preprocessor library, the coshell network execution service, and the POSIX standard pax archiver.

Current research interests include large data access, management, and compression. This work has culminated in pzip, a data compressor that betters the standard gzip compressor by a factor of two in space and time for a large class of data managed by AT&T.


Glenn Fowler
Information and Software Systems Research
AT&T Labs Research
Florham Park NJ
November 22, 2000