Benjamin Fried

I graduated from Columbia College and worked for Columbia University for many years. While I was at Columbia, I did some early work on the original web software by NCSA and CERN.

While on a leave of absence from Columbia, I helped design and develop the Decision-Theoretic Scheduler for Heuristicrats Research, under contract to NASA. It was used by NASA scientists to schedule missions for their orbital observatories.

In 1994 I joined Morgan Stanley's technology department, where I am now a managing director. I run a group called Application Infrastructure. We are responsible for all technology for software development, electronic commerce and knowledge worker productivity: compilers, development environments, scm, build tools, vendor and in-house toolkits and frameworks for java, c++, and .net; in-house developed middleware, including real-time market data, soap messaging, high-speed pub-sub, and grid computing; testing; application hosting; configuration management, change management; application monitoring; all web and portal technologies and hosting, including the internet-facing infrastructure; document management, search, business intelligence, reporting systems, real-time and asynchronous collaboration tools: email, instant messaging, video conferencing, computer-telephony integration, web conferencing; and desktop productivity applications

I'm a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and serve on the editorial advisory board of the ACM's Queue magazine.

Other trivia about me: I used to spend a lot of time playing Ultimate Frisbee. But I have bad knees now, and only play occasionally.

I'm a partner in Fra'Mani Handcrafted Salumi, makers of the world's finest cured meats.