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John Ousterhout publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Ousterhout sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 129 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

John Ousterhout D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Ousterhout sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

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

  • In search of an understandable consensus algorithm

    Diego Ongaro;John Ousterhout

  • The Zebra striped network file system

    John H. Hartman;John K. Ousterhout

  • Scripting: higher level programming for the 21st Century

    J.K. Ousterhout

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

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

  • Measurements of a distributed file system

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

  • The Sprite network operating system

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

  • Scheduling Techniques for Concurrent Systems.

    John K. Ousterhout

  • Caching in the Sprite network file system

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

  • Transparent process migration: design alternatives and the sprite implementation

    Fred Douglis;John Ousterhout

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

    John Ousterhout;Parag Agrawal;David Erickson;Christos Kozyrakis

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

    John K. Ousterhout

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

    John Ousterhout;Fred Douglis

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

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  • Fast crash recovery in RAMCloud

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

  • Disk Scheduling Revisited

    Margo Seltzer;Peter Chen;John Ousterhout

  • Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language

    John K. Ousterhout

  • The Magic VLSI Layout System

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

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

    J.K. Ousterhout

  • The LFS Storage Manager.

    Mendel Rosenblum;John K. Ousterhout

  • Zebra striped network file system

    John H. Hartman;John K. Ousterhout

Frequent Co-Authors

Mendel Rosenblum
Mendel Rosenblum Stanford University
Fred Douglis
Fred Douglis Peraton Labs
Randy H. Katz
Randy H. Katz University of California, Berkeley
David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley
Mary Baker
Mary Baker Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Thomas Anderson
Thomas Anderson University of Washington
James R. Larus
James R. Larus École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
David Mazières
David Mazières Stanford University

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