Keith Jonathan Winstein (born 1981[citation needed]) is a U.S. computer scientist and journalist. He is currently a professor at Stanford University.[1]
Keith Jonathan Winstein | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | author of Mosh |
Scientific career | |
Fields | computer science and journalism (professionally) |
Institutions | |
Doctoral advisor | Hari Balakrishnan |
Website | cs |
Previously, he was the Claude E. Shannon Research Assistant[2] at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Networks and Mobile Systems group[3] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pursuing a Ph.D. under Hari Balakrishnan. Winstein is best known as the author of Mosh, the mobile shell, a UDP-based ssh replacement optimized for mobile users featuring predictive local echo, automatic roaming, and high network resiliency.
He is the son of the late experimental physicist Bruce Winstein.
Winstein was involved in several computer science projects.
Winstein was a news reporter for The Wall Street Journal's Boston bureau from 2005[14] to its closure in 2009,[15] focusing on the biomedical beat.[4] Prior to his stint at the Journal, he was a reporter and news editor for MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, and interned at The New York Sun.
As a reporter, Winstein wrote several articles critical of medical studies.[16][17][18]
Winstein also disclosed errors in Google Flu Trends.[19][20]