ARMANDO FOX.

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    • Subject Terms:
      PALO Alto (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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      STANFORD University
    • Subject Terms:
      FOX, Armando
    • Abstract:
      This article describes the work of Armando Fox, who showed how software could protect networks from disastrous crashes in individual servers. Computers will always crash. For the average user, rebooting is a mere nuisance, but a network server crash can cost large businesses thousands of dollars. Armando Fox is a leader of a growing trend in the design of computer networks: the creation of systems designed to cope with inevitable failure. Fox and his team have developed a technique called micro-rebooting that allows the diverse software modules running on a computer at any given time to be restarted independently when a glitch is encountered. Thus, the entire suite of programs does not have to be shut down and restarted from scratch.