2026 John Ousterhout: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	60	3160	3068	1531	1474	129	28057

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For improving our ability to program computers by raising the level of abstraction.
1997 - ACM Software System Award John Ousterhout
1994 - ACM Fellow For his contribution to very large scale integrated circuit computer aided design. His systems, Caesar and Magic, have demonstrated that effective CAD systems need not be expensive, hard to learn, or slow.
1987 - ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For his contribution to very large scale integrated circuit computer aided design. His systems, Caesar and Magic, have demonstrated that effective CAD systems need not be expensive, hard to learn, or slow.

Overview

John Ousterhout is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans several fields within computer science, focusing primarily on computer networks and communications as well as information systems.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

Software System Performance and Reliability
Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Cloud Computing and Resource Management

John Ousterhout has published research in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), contributing to the body of knowledge in computer science.

One recent publication is:

"It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter" (2022) published in arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has not been noted for frequent co-authors in the provided data.

In terms of recognition, John Ousterhout has received several awards, including:

Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2001) for improving the ability to program computers by raising the level of abstraction
ACM Software System Award (1997)
ACM Fellow (1994) for contributions to very large scale integrated circuit computer aided design, including the systems Caesar and Magic
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1987) for contributions to very large scale integrated circuit computer aided design, specifically the Caesar and Magic systems

These awards highlight contributions in system design and abstraction within computing, notably involving computer aided design systems that demonstrated effective CAD systems can be accessible and efficient.

Best Publications

The Design and Implementation of a Log-structured file system

Mendel Rosenblum;John K. Ousterhout

5442
Citations
In search of an understandable consensus algorithm

Diego Ongaro;John Ousterhout

2371
Citations
The Zebra striped network file system

John H. Hartman;John K. Ousterhout

1439
Citations
Scripting: higher level programming for the 21st Century

J.K. Ousterhout

1220
Citations
A trace-driven analysis of the UNIX 4.2 BSD file system

John K. Ousterhout;Hervé Da Costa;David Harrison;John A. Kunze

902
Citations
Measurements of a distributed file system

Mary G. Baker;John H. Hartman;Michael D. Kupfer;Ken W. Shirriff

898
Citations
The Sprite network operating system

J.K. Ousterhout;A.R. Cherenson;F. Douglis;M.N. Nelson

890
Citations
Scheduling Techniques for Concurrent Systems.

John K. Ousterhout

882
Citations
Caching in the Sprite network file system

Michael N. Nelson;Brent B. Welch;John K. Ousterhout

871
Citations
Transparent process migration: design alternatives and the sprite implementation

Fred Douglis;John Ousterhout

811
Citations
The case for RAMClouds: scalable high-performance storage entirely in DRAM

John Ousterhout;Parag Agrawal;David Erickson;Christos Kozyrakis

755
Citations
Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster As Fast as Hardware?

John K. Ousterhout

693
Citations
Beating the I/O bottleneck: a case for log-structured file systems

John Ousterhout;Fred Douglis

544
Citations
A trace-driven analysis of the UNIX 4.2 BSD file system

Unknown

512
Citations
Fast crash recovery in RAMCloud

Diego Ongaro;Stephen M. Rumble;Ryan Stutsman;John Ousterhout

482
Citations
Disk Scheduling Revisited

Margo Seltzer;Peter Chen;John Ousterhout

461
Citations
Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language

John K. Ousterhout

444
Citations
The Magic VLSI Layout System

John K. Ousterhout;Gordon T. Hamachi;Robert N. Mayo;Walter S. Scott

422
Citations
Corner Stitching: A Data-Structuring Technique for VLSI Layout Tools

J.K. Ousterhout

405
Citations
The LFS Storage Manager.

Mendel Rosenblum;John K. Ousterhout

396
Citations
Zebra striped network file system

John H. Hartman;John K. Ousterhout

23
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mendel Rosenblum Stanford University

Fred Douglis Peraton Labs

Randy H. Katz University of California, Berkeley

David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley

Mary Baker Hewlett-Packard (United States)

Mohammad Alizadeh MIT

Thomas Anderson University of Washington

Michael Stonebraker MIT

James R. Larus École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

David Mazières Stanford University

External Links

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