Ed Nightingale

Vice President
Systems and Foundations Organization
Microsoft Research

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- The Seven Properties of Highly Secured Devices (2nd Edition)
  
  Galen Hunt, George Letey, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  MSR-TR-2020-41 | November 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  PDF Project
- Nineteen cybersecurity best practices used to implement the seven properties of highly secured devices in Azure Sphere
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, P. Orwick
  
  MSR-TR-2020-56 | July 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- No compromises: distributed transactions with consistency, availability, and performance
  
  Aleksandar Dragojevic, Dushyanth Narayanan, Edmund B Nightingale, Matthew Renzelmann, Alex Shamis, Anirudh Badam, Miguel Castro
  
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'15) | October 2015
  
  Publication Publication Project
- WearDrive: Fast and Energy-Efficient Storage for Wearables
  
  Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Ranveer Chandra, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Annual Technical Conference (ATC'15) | July 2015
  
  USENIX ATC 2014 Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project Project
- Blizzard: Fast, Cloud-scale Block Storage for Cloud-oblivious Applications
  
  James Mickens, Edmund B Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Krishna Nareddy, Darren Gehring
  
  Proceedings of NSDI | April 2014
  
  Publication
- Flat Datacenter Storage
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen Hofmann, Jon Howell, Yutaka Suzue
  
  The 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '12) | October 2012
  
  Publication
- MinuteSort with Flat Datacenter Storage
  
  Johnson Apacible, Rich Draves, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen Hofmann, Jon Howell, Edmund B Nightingale, Reuben Olinsky, Yutaka Suzue
  
  MSR-TR-2012-126 | May 2012
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Cycles, Cells and Platters: An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, John (JD) Douceur, Vince Orgovan
  
  Proceedings of EuroSys 2011 | April 2011
  
  Best Paper
  
  Publication
- Dynamically Replicated Memory: Building Reliable Systems from Nanoscale Resistive Memories
  
  Engin Ipek, Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Doug Burger, Thomas Moscibroda
  
  ASPLOS 2010: 15th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Pittsburgh, PA | March 2010
  
  ASPLOS Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- quFiles: The Right File at the Right Time
  
  Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale, Brian Noble
  
  8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage technologies (FAST '10) | February 2010
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory
  
  Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin Ipek, Benjamin Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee
  
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09) | October 2009
  
  Publication
- Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing with Satellite Kernels
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Orion Hodson, Ross McIlroy, Chris Hawblitzel, Galen Hunt
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09) | October 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Tolerating Latency in Replicated State Machines Through Client Speculation
  
  Benjamin Wester, James Cowling, Edmund B. Nightingale, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Barbara Liskov, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  The 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09) | January 2009
  
  Publication
- Rethink the Sync
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn
  
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) | September 2008, Vol 26(3)
  
  This is an extended version of our OSDI 2006 paper.
  
  Publication
- Parallelizing Security Checks on Commodity Hardware
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Edmund B. Nightingale, Daniel Peek, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn
  
  Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '08) | March 2008
  
  Publication
- quFiles: A Unifying Abstraction for Mobile Data Management
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Brian Noble
  
  Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile '08) | February 2008
  
  Publication
- PhD Thesis: Speculative Execution Within A Commodity Operating System
  
  Edmund B Nightingale
  
  January 2007
  
  PhD Thesis: The University of Michigan | January 2007
  
  Publication
- Speculative Execution in a Distributed File System
  
  Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) | November 2006, Vol 24(4): pp. 361-392
  
  Publication
- Rethink the Sync
  
  Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Seventh Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06) | October 2006
  
  Best Paper
  
  Publication
- Virtual Ring Routing: Network Routing Inspired by DHTs
  
  Matthew Caesar, Miguel Castro, Edmund B Nightingale, Greg O'Shea, Ant Rowstron
  
  MSR-TR-2006-29 | August 2006
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
  
  Publication
- Speculative Execution In A Distributed File System
  
  Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '05) Award paper. | October 2005
  
  Selected as an award paper.
  
  Publication
- Energy-efficiency and storage flexibility in the Blue File System
  
  Edmund B. Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04) | December 2004
  
  Publication
- Ghosts in the Machine: Interfaces for Better Power Management
  
  Manish Anand, Edmund B. Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Mobile Computing Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys '04) Won best paper award. | June 2004
  
  Publication
- Self-tuning wireless network power management
  
  Manish Anand, Edmund B Nightingale, Jason Flinn
  
  Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM '03) | September 2003
  
  Publication

- The Seven Properties of Highly Secured Devices (2nd Edition)
  
  Galen Hunt, George Letey, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  MSR-TR-2020-41 | November 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  PDF Project
- Nineteen cybersecurity best practices used to implement the seven properties of highly secured devices in Azure Sphere
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, P. Orwick
  
  MSR-TR-2020-56 | July 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- The Seven Properties of Highly Secured Devices (2nd Edition)
  
  Galen Hunt, George Letey, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  MSR-TR-2020-41 | November 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  PDF Project
- Ghosts in the Machine: Interfaces for Better Power Management
  
  Manish Anand, Edmund B. Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Mobile Computing Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys '04) Won best paper award. | June 2004
  
  Publication
- The Seven Properties of Highly Secured Devices (2nd Edition)
  
  Galen Hunt, George Letey, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  MSR-TR-2020-41 | November 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  PDF Project
- No compromises: distributed transactions with consistency, availability, and performance
  
  Aleksandar Dragojevic, Dushyanth Narayanan, Edmund B Nightingale, Matthew Renzelmann, Alex Shamis, Anirudh Badam, Miguel Castro
  
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'15) | October 2015
  
  Publication Publication Project
- WearDrive: Fast and Energy-Efficient Storage for Wearables
  
  Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Ranveer Chandra, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Annual Technical Conference (ATC'15) | July 2015
  
  USENIX ATC 2014 Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project Project
- Blizzard: Fast, Cloud-scale Block Storage for Cloud-oblivious Applications
  
  James Mickens, Edmund B Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Krishna Nareddy, Darren Gehring
  
  Proceedings of NSDI | April 2014
  
  Publication
- Flat Datacenter Storage
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen Hofmann, Jon Howell, Yutaka Suzue
  
  The 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '12) | October 2012
  
  Publication
- MinuteSort with Flat Datacenter Storage
  
  Johnson Apacible, Rich Draves, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen Hofmann, Jon Howell, Edmund B Nightingale, Reuben Olinsky, Yutaka Suzue
  
  MSR-TR-2012-126 | May 2012
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Cycles, Cells and Platters: An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, John (JD) Douceur, Vince Orgovan
  
  Proceedings of EuroSys 2011 | April 2011
  
  Best Paper
  
  Publication
- Dynamically Replicated Memory: Building Reliable Systems from Nanoscale Resistive Memories
  
  Engin Ipek, Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Doug Burger, Thomas Moscibroda
  
  ASPLOS 2010: 15th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Pittsburgh, PA | March 2010
  
  ASPLOS Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- quFiles: The Right File at the Right Time
  
  Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale, Brian Noble
  
  8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage technologies (FAST '10) | February 2010
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing with Satellite Kernels
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Orion Hodson, Ross McIlroy, Chris Hawblitzel, Galen Hunt
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09) | October 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory
  
  Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin Ipek, Benjamin Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee
  
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09) | October 2009
  
  Publication
- Tolerating Latency in Replicated State Machines Through Client Speculation
  
  Benjamin Wester, James Cowling, Edmund B. Nightingale, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Barbara Liskov, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  The 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09) | January 2009
  
  Publication
- Rethink the Sync
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn
  
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) | September 2008, Vol 26(3)
  
  This is an extended version of our OSDI 2006 paper.
  
  Publication
- Parallelizing Security Checks on Commodity Hardware
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Edmund B. Nightingale, Daniel Peek, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn
  
  Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '08) | March 2008
  
  Publication
- Rethink the Sync
  
  Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Seventh Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06) | October 2006
  
  Best Paper
  
  Publication
- Self-tuning wireless network power management
  
  Manish Anand, Edmund B Nightingale, Jason Flinn
  
  Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM '03) | September 2003
  
  Publication
- quFiles: A Unifying Abstraction for Mobile Data Management
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Brian Noble
  
  Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile '08) | February 2008
  
  Publication
- PhD Thesis: Speculative Execution Within A Commodity Operating System
  
  Edmund B Nightingale
  
  January 2007
  
  PhD Thesis: The University of Michigan | January 2007
  
  Publication
- Speculative Execution in a Distributed File System
  
  Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) | November 2006, Vol 24(4): pp. 361-392
  
  Publication
- Energy-efficiency and storage flexibility in the Blue File System
  
  Edmund B. Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04) | December 2004
  
  Publication
- quFiles: The Right File at the Right Time
  
  Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale, Brian Noble
  
  8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage technologies (FAST '10) | February 2010
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- quFiles: A Unifying Abstraction for Mobile Data Management
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Brian Noble
  
  Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile '08) | February 2008
  
  Publication
- MinuteSort with Flat Datacenter Storage
  
  Johnson Apacible, Rich Draves, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen Hofmann, Jon Howell, Edmund B Nightingale, Reuben Olinsky, Yutaka Suzue
  
  MSR-TR-2012-126 | May 2012
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Virtual Ring Routing: Network Routing Inspired by DHTs
  
  Matthew Caesar, Miguel Castro, Edmund B Nightingale, Greg O'Shea, Ant Rowstron
  
  MSR-TR-2006-29 | August 2006
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
  
  Publication
- Speculative Execution In A Distributed File System
  
  Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '05) Award paper. | October 2005
  
  Selected as an award paper.
  
  Publication

- The Seven Properties of Highly Secured Devices (2nd Edition)
  
  Galen Hunt, George Letey, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  MSR-TR-2020-41 | November 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  PDF Project
- Nineteen cybersecurity best practices used to implement the seven properties of highly secured devices in Azure Sphere
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, P. Orwick
  
  MSR-TR-2020-56 | July 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- MinuteSort with Flat Datacenter Storage
  
  Johnson Apacible, Rich Draves, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen Hofmann, Jon Howell, Edmund B Nightingale, Reuben Olinsky, Yutaka Suzue
  
  MSR-TR-2012-126 | May 2012
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Virtual Ring Routing: Network Routing Inspired by DHTs
  
  Matthew Caesar, Miguel Castro, Edmund B Nightingale, Greg O'Shea, Ant Rowstron
  
  MSR-TR-2006-29 | August 2006
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
  
  Publication
- No compromises: distributed transactions with consistency, availability, and performance
  
  Aleksandar Dragojevic, Dushyanth Narayanan, Edmund B Nightingale, Matthew Renzelmann, Alex Shamis, Anirudh Badam, Miguel Castro
  
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'15) | October 2015
  
  Publication Publication Project
- WearDrive: Fast and Energy-Efficient Storage for Wearables
  
  Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Ranveer Chandra, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Annual Technical Conference (ATC'15) | July 2015
  
  USENIX ATC 2014 Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project Project
- Blizzard: Fast, Cloud-scale Block Storage for Cloud-oblivious Applications
  
  James Mickens, Edmund B Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Krishna Nareddy, Darren Gehring
  
  Proceedings of NSDI | April 2014
  
  Publication
- Flat Datacenter Storage
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen Hofmann, Jon Howell, Yutaka Suzue
  
  The 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '12) | October 2012
  
  Publication
- Cycles, Cells and Platters: An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, John (JD) Douceur, Vince Orgovan
  
  Proceedings of EuroSys 2011 | April 2011
  
  Best Paper
  
  Publication
- Dynamically Replicated Memory: Building Reliable Systems from Nanoscale Resistive Memories
  
  Engin Ipek, Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Doug Burger, Thomas Moscibroda
  
  ASPLOS 2010: 15th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Pittsburgh, PA | March 2010
  
  ASPLOS Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- quFiles: The Right File at the Right Time
  
  Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale, Brian Noble
  
  8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage technologies (FAST '10) | February 2010
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing with Satellite Kernels
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Orion Hodson, Ross McIlroy, Chris Hawblitzel, Galen Hunt
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09) | October 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Better I/O Through Byte-Addressable, Persistent Memory
  
  Jeremy Condit, Edmund B Nightingale, Christopher Frost, Engin Ipek, Benjamin Lee, Doug Burger, Derrick Coetzee
  
  Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09) | October 2009
  
  Publication
- Tolerating Latency in Replicated State Machines Through Client Speculation
  
  Benjamin Wester, James Cowling, Edmund B. Nightingale, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Barbara Liskov, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  The 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09) | January 2009
  
  Publication
- Parallelizing Security Checks on Commodity Hardware
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Edmund B. Nightingale, Daniel Peek, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn
  
  Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '08) | March 2008
  
  Publication
- quFiles: A Unifying Abstraction for Mobile Data Management
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Brian Noble
  
  Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile '08) | February 2008
  
  Publication
- Rethink the Sync
  
  Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Seventh Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06) | October 2006
  
  Best Paper
  
  Publication
- Speculative Execution In A Distributed File System
  
  Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '05) Award paper. | October 2005
  
  Selected as an award paper.
  
  Publication
- Energy-efficiency and storage flexibility in the Blue File System
  
  Edmund B. Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04) | December 2004
  
  Publication
- Ghosts in the Machine: Interfaces for Better Power Management
  
  Manish Anand, Edmund B. Nightingale, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Mobile Computing Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys '04) Won best paper award. | June 2004
  
  Publication
- Self-tuning wireless network power management
  
  Manish Anand, Edmund B Nightingale, Jason Flinn
  
  Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM '03) | September 2003
  
  Publication
- Rethink the Sync
  
  Edmund B Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn
  
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) | September 2008, Vol 26(3)
  
  This is an extended version of our OSDI 2006 paper.
  
  Publication
- Speculative Execution in a Distributed File System
  
  Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, Edmund B Nightingale
  
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) | November 2006, Vol 24(4): pp. 361-392
  
  Publication
- PhD Thesis: Speculative Execution Within A Commodity Operating System
  
  Edmund B Nightingale
  
  January 2007
  
  PhD Thesis: The University of Michigan | January 2007
  
  Publication