Jason Ansel, ’07, was named a finalist in the
Computing Research Association (CRA)
Outstanding Undergraduate Awards program.
Each year, the CRA recognizes undergrad-
uate students in North American universities
who show outstanding potential in an area
of computing research. As a finalist, Ansel
placed among the top 15 students in this
year’s competition. He has coauthored
two conference papers and one extended
abstract with Professor Gene Cooperman
on transparent checkpointing: periodically

saving to disk the state of a running program, so that one can
restart from disk in the event of computer failure. It is transparent
in that the operating system is not modified, and the programmer
need not modify the application source code. Ansel is currently
working toward transparently checkpointing large distributed
computations. Jason was vice-president of the CCIS honor society,
Upsilon Pi Epsilon, and cofounder of RALPH, a forum for CCIS
students to showcase their research. He began graduate studies
at MIT this fall.

First-year CCIS student Jeff Dlouhy was
chosen for a spot in the Google Summer
of Code program. This is a highly selective
program that offers student developers
stipends to write code for various open
source projects. Google works with
several open source, free software and
technology-related groups to identify and
fund projects. The program is now in its
third year and has brought together over
100 students and open source projects,
to create hundreds of thousands of lines

CCIS senior Nathan Faber’s project was
selected by VMWare for the academic
poster presentation at VMWorld, held
in September 2007 in San Francisco.
VMWare, an EMC company, is the global
leader in virtual infrastructure software
for industry-standard systems. Faber’s
project, MOVARTO: Server Migration across
Networks using Route Triangulation and
DNS, solves a basic problem faced by
enterprises—how to move a service across
the wide area network while minimizing

of code. Dlouhy was one of 900 students accepted from a pool of
6,200 applicants. He will be working on new features and functionality
to the Camino web browser. His project proposal was accepted for
the Mozilla Foundation.

downtime and attendant disruptions. Existing techniques deal with
moving a service only within a network segment. MOVARTO is able
to move services across network segments. It does so by a careful
layering of networking technologies—route triangulation and DNS—
and extends virtualization from servers to networks, achieving
“network virtualization.” This project was done in collaboration with
Professor Ravi Sundaram.

Christopher Lambert, ’07, received the 2007 Compass Award from
the Office of Alumni Relations, which recognizes eight outstanding
seniors who have demonstrated commitment to a core set of
values. He was also recognized as one of the 100 most influential
seniors in the class of 2007 by the vice president of student affairs.
Lambert was on the Dean’s List and University Honors Program
throughout his tenure at Northeastern. He was an active member
of the student chapter of the ACM. During his tenure as president,
the chapter was honored for its outstanding chapter activities
in the national ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards for
their innovative work in creating a dynamic speaker series and
recruiting several international speakers. Lambert also initiated
the creation of a 700-book technical library. Since graduating last
spring, Lambert has worked for Google.