Keith Winstein
| Keith Jonathan Winstein | |
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| Residence | Palo Alto, California |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | computer science and journalism (professionally) |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Hari Balakrishnan |
| Known for | author of Mosh |
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Keith Jonathan Winstein is a U.S. computer scientist and journalist. He is currently a professor at Stanford University.
Previously, he was the Claude E. Shannon Research Assistant at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Networks and Mobile Systems group 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 -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 to its closure in 2009, focusing on the biomedical beat. 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.
Winstein also disclosed errors in Google Flu Trends.
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