Welcome to the Homepage of Cees de Laat

Prof.dr.ir. Cees T. A. M. de Laat
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Science,
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 900, 1098XH, Amsterdam
PO Box 94323, 1090GH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Affiliate Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Mail: c.t.a.m.delaat->uva.nl

Introduction

The complexity of digital systems on all scales is my research field. Cyber Infrastructure is rapidly evolving from relatively simple fixed components to programmable and virtualized objects with many degrees of freedom, owned, operated and governed by different entities in multiple administrative domains interacting on the Internet. Harnessing this complexity in a transparent trust-able way for safe and secure data processing is a major research topic that nowadays defines the focus in my research.

Although I am retired I am employed by the UvA via UvA Jobservices for one day a week to remain advising the board on digital transition and a.o. chair the IT for Research committee. Also I support several international initiatives in Cyber Infrastructure development and am part of a number of international advisory boards. I am member of the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) group and guest of the Complex Cyber Infrastructure (CCI) and Parallel Computing Systems (PCS) research groups.

Teaching

As per Sept 1, 2022 I am not teaching anymore.

Master SNE ; See also introduction and curriculum. (until 2022)
- Research projects (RP) now organized by dr. Francesco Regazzoni
Bachelor Computer Science VU, Introduction to CS (until 2021)
- System and Network Engineering Research for Big Data Sciences.
- Talk abstract, referenced papers and slides.
Master Informaton Sciences, Fundamentals of Data Science (until 2020)
- Snowden and the Internet.
- Talk abstract, referenced papers and slides.
Minor Privacy & Data Protection (Faculty of Law) (until 2018)
- Snowden and the Internet.
- Talk abstract, referenced papers and slides.

Current Projects

OFCnet - Optical Forum Conference network exhibition / demo zone.
OFC - Optical Forum Conference demonstrators, presentations, articles
SC - Supercomputing demonstrators, presentations, articles

Committees & Memberships

IOC - UvA IT for Research committee
ICT-Regie - UvA ICT innovation committee
UOC - University Research Committee
Full list of committees & memberships

Interesting Subjects

Reports - Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and White House Cyber Infrastructure Reports.
Symposium - System and Network Engineering, on occasion of my (partly) retirement.
SETUP - Internet tools, Web Server (Apache) and DNS (bind) on MacOS using Homebrew.

delaat.net scores at internet.nl for WEB: and for MAIL:

CHECK - Security checks on a number of Websites and email Servers.
O365 - Office cloud - pro's, con's and best practices.
MDM - Mobile Device Management; pro's, con's and best practices.
Clock - a practical Clock Radio page programmed with JavaScript (as an exercise)
Oratie - Kwaliteit in een virtuele wereld, 27 januarie 2011.

Completed Projects

AMDEX - Amsterdam Data Exchange pilot
EPI - Enabling Personalized Interventions
DL4LD - Data Logistics 4 Logistic Data
SSPDDP - Secure Scalable Policy-enforced Distributed Data Processing.
SecConNet - Smart, Secure Container Networks for Trusted Big Data Sharing.
DAS - Distributed ASCI Supercomputer DAS2, DAS3, DAS4, DAS5, DAS6
SARNET
EU-ENVRIplus
EU-EXTRA
EU-VRE4EIC
EU-CYCLONE
EU-SWITCH
EU-EDISON
COMMIT
EU GEANT (GN4 project)
NWO-SES GreenClouds

PIRE workshop
CineGrid-Amsterdam, CineGrid-UVA
AAAARCH - IRTF Authentication, Authorization and Accounting ARCHitecture RG
U-GEYSERS
EU-NOVI
SCARIe
VL-e
GigaPort + 40G @ GLIF and SC10
StarPlane
EU Phosphorus
EU NextGrid
GigaPort-NG
EU EGEE
EU DataTAG
Privacy and security platform @ UVA