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Kurt L. Keville

Welcome

Welcome to my personal web page. Here are my vitals.

Education

SM ESD (Engineering Systems Divisition), 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BS CS, 1983, United States Military Academy at West Point

Course VI Alumnus, 1990, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Employment

  • Systems Administrator, SDC Coordinator, and Research Specialist at the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, 2004-present
  • Beowulf Specialist, Materials Research, Powell Research Group, 2003
  • Systems Administrator, Clinical Research Center at MIT, 1999-2004
  • Network and Systems Consultant, freelance, 1991-1998
  • Co-Founder, virtualFactory, 1998
  • Programmer / Analyst, Unisys, 1989-1991
  • Signal Corps Officer, United States Army, 1983-1988

Projects

  • Green Monster Reservations Request System interface mock-up
  • Solar Super Computing, 2009 images
  • Principal Investigator, Solar 7 Team, ongoing (http://mit.edu/solardecathlon)
  • Cambridge CPI Project, ongoing (http://www.cambridgema.gov/wifi)
  •  "WiFi moves off campus" (http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/N65/wirelesscambridge.html)
  •  Muniwireless magazine, Sept 06 (http://www.muniwireless.com/reports/MW003.pdf)
  • Publications Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Burlington, MA September, 2005 (http://cluster2005.org/)
  • SDC, 2004, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4101655.stm)
  • Public Art "WOTS=Word On The Site, Illuminated Words" Boston Cyberarts Festival, 2003

Speaking Engagements

  • MIT Solar Decathlon House, Presented to 2nd Annual IDSA Conference, November, 2006
  • The Measure Polytope: Rapid Context Switching within a Universal Network Architecture, Presented to the High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop, September 2006
  • Rooftop WLAN Project, Presented to Boston Linux and Unix User Group, August 2006
  • Wireless Provisioning in Hostile RF Environments, Presented to the 6th Annual IEEE SMC Information Assurance Workshop, May, 2005
  • SDC Overview, Presented to the Service Academy Business Network, May 2006
  • Beowulf II, Presented to Boston Linux and Unix User Group, November 2004
  • Lessons Learned from the HOPE conference (Hard and soft wireless bridging solutions), Presented to MIT Security Camp, August 2004
  • Wireless Community Networks, Presented to MIT Club of Boston, October 2003
  • Beowulf I: The State of Beowulf Clustering, Presented to Boston Linux and Unix User Group, October 2002

Poster Presentations

  • Return of the Hypercube: 10 Gbps per Node over 802.3ab, Presented to the High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop, September 2005
  • IEEE 1394 and RFC 2734; a viable HSI for Hypercubes, Presented to 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, 2001 (also SC2002)

In The News

  • Interview, NPR Morning Edition, broadcast March 2007
  • "Free WiFi for all of Cambridge?" Universal Hub, published February 2006
  • "Freewalkers", Wired, published May, 2003
  • "Click Online" BBC News 24, broadcast December 2004
  • "Opteron Systems To Boost MIT Research Supercomputing Cluster", CPU Planet, published May 2003
  • "Adding AMD Opteron™ Processor-based Systems to Computing Cluster", AMD Success Stories, published April 2003
  • "Company links entrepreneurs, investors" Boston Business Journal, published March, 1998
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