Andrew J. Erlichson

I received my Ph.D. from Stanford in June 1997. I was in the Computer Systems Laboratory and my advisor was John Hennessy.

As of 2007, I am CEO of Phanfare. Phanfare offers personal online video and photo albums without advertising. Digital photography workflow is dramatically improved using a cache-coherent client application that hides the latency of long uploads of video and images to the service while allowing the user to work locally with their videos and photos on their PC.

Our board members include Dwight Merriman, founder of ShopWiki, a low-cost shopping search engine, and Fabrice Grinda, founder of olx.com, a global site for classified listings.

Before Phanfare, I founded Flashbase. Flashbase was acquired by DoubleClick, which was subsequently acquired by Google.. I tend to do startups with Mark Heinrich, whom I met at Stanford.

The picture on this page is really old. I keep it up out of sense of nostalgia.


Publications
Andrew Erlichson Clustered Distributed Virtual Shared Memory for Large-Scale Multiprocessing. Ph.D. Thesis. Stanford University, June 1997. PostScript

Andrew Erlichson, Basem Nayfeh, Jaswinder Singh, and Kunle Olukotun. The Benefits of Clustering in Shared Address Space Multiprocessors: An Applications Driven Investigation. In Proceedings of SuperComputing 1995. HTML of paper Postscript.

Andrew Erlichson, Neal Nuckolls, Greg Chesson and John Hennessy. SoftFLASH: Analzying the Performance of Clustered Distributed Virtual Shared Memory. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. Cambridge, October 1996. PostScript.

Other Diversions
I graduated in '89 with a A.B from Dartmouth College. Here is our alumni page for my class alumni.

Also, for those who are curious, I have some info on how to form a startup company in Silicon Valley.