James Mickens
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Through our scientific and technological genius, we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood.
Background
James Mickens is a researcher in the Distributed Systems group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. Mickens received his PhD in computer science from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Interests
His research focuses on cloud-scale storage systems, and client-side JavaScript frameworks that improve the performance, robustness, and security of web applications.
During his stay at MIT, Mickens tentatively plans to make everything better for everyone on Earth. His approach will be cross-disciplinary and thus NSF-friendly. After solving all problems, Mickens will write a children’s book, which explains the bad old days when perpetual motion machines did not exist, and bicycles did not spontaneously transform into helmets when crashes were imminent. Mickens will write this book from his vacation home near Alpha Centauri, because Mickens will have un-problematized the problem of interstellar space travel, mainly using Mickens diagrams, which are similar to Feynman diagrams, but less constrained by reality.