Michael James Boyer Epstein
13 Papers
148 Citations
Michael James Boyer Epstein is an academic researcher from Google. The author has contributed to research in topics: Voice over IP & Telephony. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 13 publications. Previous affiliations of Michael James Boyer Epstein include Microsoft.
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Spanner: Google's globally-distributed database
James C. Corbett,Jeffrey Dean,Michael James Boyer Epstein,Andrew Fikes,Christopher Frost,J. J. Furman,Sanjay Ghemawat,Andrey Gubarev,Christopher Heiser,Peter Hochschild,Wilson C. Hsieh,Sebastian Kanthak,Eugene Kogan,Hongyi Li,Alexander Lloyd,Sergey Melnik,David Mwaura,David Nagle,Sean Quinlan,Rajesh Rao,Lindsay Rolig,Yasushi Saito,Michal Piotr Szymaniak,Chris Jorgen Taylor,Ruth Wang,Dale Woodford +25 more
- 08 Oct 2012
TL;DR: This article describes how Spanner is structured, its feature set, the rationale underlying various design decisions, and a novel time API that exposes clock uncertainty, critical to supporting external consistency and a variety of powerful features.
Spanner: Google’s Globally Distributed Database
James C. Corbett,Jeffrey Dean,Michael James Boyer Epstein,Andrew Fikes,Christopher Frost,J. J. Furman,Sanjay Ghemawat,Andrey Gubarev,Christopher Heiser,Peter Hochschild,Wilson C. Hsieh,Sebastian Kanthak,Eugene Kogan,Hongyi Li,Alexander Lloyd,Sergey Melnik,David Mwaura,David Nagle,Sean Quinlan,Rajesh Rao,Lindsay Rolig,Yasushi Saito,Michal Piotr Szymaniak,Chris Jorgen Taylor,Ruth Wang,Dale Woodford +25 more
TL;DR: Spanner as mentioned in this paper is Google's scalable, multiversion, globally distributed, and synchronously replicated database, which is the first system to distribute data at global scale and support externally-consistent distributed transactions.
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Localized voice over internet protocol communication
Donald C. Jackson,Michael James Boyer Epstein,John Giannandrea,Mark A. Verber +3 more
- 13 Oct 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, an approach to abstracting the circuit switched nature of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) by using VoIP to provide voice actuated services is disclosed.
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Generating globally coherent timestamps
Peter Hochschild,Alexander Lloyd,Wilson C. Hsieh,Robert Felderman,Michael James Boyer Epstein +4 more
- 18 May 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose techniques for generating globally coherent timestamps, which may allow distributed systems to causally order transactions without incurring various types of communication delays inherent in explicit synchronization.
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IP-based Interactive Voice Response system for servicing calls from a PSTN
Michael James Boyer Epstein,John Giannandrea,Donald C. Jackson,Mark A. Verber +3 more
- 27 Jun 2001
TL;DR: In this article, an approach to abstracting the circuit switched nature of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) by using VoIP to provide voice actuated services is disclosed.
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