Education
Larus graduated magna cum laude from in 1980 with an Bachelor of Arts in Applied Mathematics. He got both a Masters and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1982 and 1989 respectively.
Larus graduated magna cum laude from in 1980 with an Bachelor of Arts in Applied Mathematics. He got both a Masters and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1982 and 1989 respectively.
He is currently at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) where he is the Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC). Before joining École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Larus worked as a Principal Researcher in Microsoft Research, where he worked from 1998 until 2013. He was at one point the Director of Research and Strategy for Microsoft"s eXtreme Computing Group (XCG) where he helped develop the Orleans cloud computing project
He was also one of the two co-leads on Microsoft"s Singularity project
Prior to working for Microsoft, James was an Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Computer Science department.