doctoral_advisor thesis_year birth_place thesis_title nationality fields workplaces birth_date thesis_url doctoral_students known_for image article_title name alma_mater
ugo o. gagliardi 1971 brooklyn computational algorithms for closed queueing networks with exponential servers american queueing theory nih 28 may 1943 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=362342.362345 robert metcalfe buzen 's algorithm bgs systems jeffrey p. buzen.jpg jeffrey p. buzen
 jeffrey p. buzen harvard university
jeffrey p. buzen

jeffrey peter buzen -lrb- born may 28 , 1943 -rrb- is an american computer scientist in system performance analysis best known for his contributions to queueing theory .
his 1971 doctoral thesis `` computational algorithms for closed queueing networks with exponential servers '' has guided the study of queueing network modeling .
born in brooklyn , buzen received a b.sc .
in applied mathematics from brown university -lrb- 1965 -rrb- , and at harvard university received a m.sc .
-lrb- 1966 -rrb- and ph.d. -lrb- 1971 -rrb- .
he was a systems programmer at the nih in bethesda , md -lrb- 1967 -- 69 -rrb- , studying the performance of realtime systems , which led to his first publication in a 1969 ieee conference .
from 1971 to 1976 , he held various appointments as a lecturer in computer science at harvard , and as a systems engineer at honeywell .
some of his students at harvard have gone on to become well known figures in the computer industry .
robert m. metcalfe co-invented ethernet , john m. mcquillan developed routing algorithms used by arpanet , and bill gates co-founded microsoft .
his career in computer performance analysis has included the creation of several fundamental mathematical models and analysis procedures used in operational research , and the development of tools based on these models and procedures .
with fellow harvard applied mathematics ph.d. s robert goldberg and harold schwenk he co-founded bgs systems in 1976 to support and market these tools , serving as its vice president in charge of r&d until bgs systems merged with bmc software in 1998 .
he has held leadership positions in various professional societies , including acm sigmetrics , the ifip working group and the cmg -lrb- was president from 2000 to 2001 -rrb- .
in 1979 , he received cmg 's a.a. michelson award for technical excellence and professional contributions as a teacher and inspirer of others .
he also received the acm sigmetrics achievement award in 2010 .
