Andrew Birrell

8.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
57 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Andrew Birrell is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Birrell has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 18 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 12 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Andrew Birrell's work include Distributed systems and fault tolerance (23 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (20 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (13 papers). Andrew Birrell is often cited by papers focused on Distributed systems and fault tolerance (23 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (20 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (13 papers). Andrew Birrell collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. Andrew Birrell's co-authors include Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Roger M. Needham, Michael Schroeder, Roy Levin, Ted Wobber, Thomas L. Rodeheffer and Charles P. Thacker and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Birrell

53 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Dryad 1984 2026 1998 2012 2007 1984 1991 2007 500 1000 1.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andrew Birrell United States 23 4.7k 2.4k 1.6k 1.0k 429 57 5.5k
Darrell D. E. Long United States 39 5.0k 1.1× 2.1k 0.9× 1.0k 0.7× 871 0.8× 324 0.8× 212 5.7k
Margo Seltzer United States 44 5.2k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 444 1.0× 201 6.5k
Marvin Theimer United States 29 4.4k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 634 0.4× 944 0.9× 863 2.0× 51 5.5k
Robbert van Renesse United States 38 5.4k 1.1× 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 144 0.3× 166 6.0k
Gerald J. Popek United States 32 3.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 191 0.4× 100 4.3k
Ethan L. Miller United States 38 4.9k 1.0× 2.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 1.0k 1.0× 200 0.5× 179 5.5k
Hong Jiang United States 38 4.4k 0.9× 2.7k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.2× 383 0.9× 356 5.6k
Gregory R. Ganger United States 57 8.4k 1.8× 4.3k 1.8× 2.4k 1.5× 2.3k 2.2× 993 2.3× 254 10.2k
Yu‐Kwong Kwok Hong Kong 28 3.7k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 1.9k 1.2× 435 0.4× 156 0.4× 162 4.3k
Werner Vogels United States 19 4.9k 1.0× 2.8k 1.2× 906 0.6× 548 0.5× 208 0.5× 48 5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew Birrell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew Birrell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Birrell

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Birrell, Andrew. (2021). System programming in a high level language. CL Technical Reports.
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Abadi, Martı́n, Andrew Birrell, Ilya Mironov, Ted Wobber, & Yinglian Xie. (2013). Global authentication in an untrustworthy world. 19–19. 16 indexed citations
3.
Abadi, Martı́n, Andrew Birrell, Tim Harris, & Michael Isard. (2011). Semantics of transactional memory and automatic mutual exclusion. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 33(1). 1–50. 21 indexed citations
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Abadi, Martı́n, Andrew Birrell, Tim Harris, & Michael Isard. (2008). Semantics of transactional memory and automatic mutual exclusion. 63–74. 110 indexed citations
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Isard, Michael & Andrew Birrell. (2007). Automatic mutual exclusion. 3. 39 indexed citations
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Isard, Michael, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrell, & Dennis Fetterly. (2007). Dryad. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 41(3). 59–72. 404 indexed citations breakdown →
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Birrell, Andrew, et al.. (2006). Implementing Portable Desktops: a New Option and Comparisons. 20. 6 indexed citations
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Abadi, Martı́n, Andrew Birrell, & Ted Wobber. (2005). Access control in a world of software diversity. 22–22. 6 indexed citations
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Lillibridge, Mark, Sameh Elnikety, Andrew Birrell, Mike Burrows, & Michael Isard. (2003). A Cooperative Backup System. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 6 indexed citations
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Lillibridge, Mark, Sameh Elnikety, Andrew Birrell, Mike Burrows, & Michael Isard. (2003). A cooperative internet backup scheme. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 3–3. 111 indexed citations
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Birrell, Andrew, et al.. (2003). Availability and consistency tradeoffs in the Echo distributed file system. 49–54. 9 indexed citations
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Birrell, Andrew. (1996). An Introduction to Programming with Threads. 71 indexed citations
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Birrell, Andrew. (1990). Fault tolerance support in distributed systems. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Birrell, Andrew, et al.. (1987). A simple and efficient implementation of a small database. 149–154. 14 indexed citations
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Birrell, Andrew. (1985). Secure communication using remote procedure calls. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 3(1). 1–14. 73 indexed citations
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Schroeder, Michael, Andrew Birrell, & Roger M. Needham. (1984). Experience with Grapevine: the growth of a distributed system. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 2(1). 3–23. 2 indexed citations
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Schroeder, Michael, Andrew Birrell, & Roger M. Needham. (1983). Experience with Grapevine: The Growth of a Distributed System (Summary).. 141–142. 1 indexed citations
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Birrell, Andrew, Roy Levin, Roger M. Needham, & Michael Schroeder. (1981). Grapevine. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 15(5). 178–179. 12 indexed citations
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Birrell, Andrew & Roger M. Needham. (1980). A Universal File Server. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. SE-6(5). 450–453. 46 indexed citations
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Needham, Roger M. & Andrew Birrell. (1977). The CAP filing system. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 11(5). 11–16. 10 indexed citations

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