Eric Allen Brewer is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley[1] and vice-president of infrastructure at Google.[2] His research interests include operating systems and distributed computing. He is known for formulating the CAP theorem about distributed network applications in the late 1990s.[3]
Eric A. Brewer | |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | CAP theorem |
Awards | ACM Fellow NAE Member |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Portable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization (1994) |
Doctoral advisor | William E. "Bill" Weihl |
Doctoral students | Nikita Borisov Ian Goldberg David A. Wagner Matt Welsh |
Website | www |
In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation (bought by Yahoo! in 2003) and became a paper billionaire during the dot-com bubble.[4] Working with the United States federal government during the presidency of Bill Clinton, he helped to create USA.gov, which launched in 2000.[5] His research also included a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet, which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world.[6] He has worked at Google since 2011.[7]
Education
editBrewer received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from UC Berkeley where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.[8] Later he earned a Master of Science and PhD in EECS from MIT. He received tenure from UC Berkeley in 2000.[9]
Awards
editIn 1999, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[10]
In 2007, Brewer was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for the design of scalable, reliable internet services."[11][12] That same year, he was also inducted into the National Academy of Engineering "for the design of highly scalable internet services."[13]
Brewer is the 2009 recipient[14] of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences[15] "for his contributions to the design and development of highly scalable Internet services."
In 2009, Brewer received the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.[16]
In 2013, the ETH Zurich honored him with the title Dr. sc. tech. (honoris causa).[17]
References
edit- ^ "Eric Brewer". Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on April 30, 2021. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
- ^ "Eric Brewer". LinkedIn. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
- ^ "Lessons from Internet Services: ACID vs. BASE". Archived from the original on 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
- ^ "A Fallen Tech Highflier Sifts Through Bubble Memories". Los Angeles Times. July 5, 2004.
- ^ "About the Website USA.gov". USA.gov. Archived from the original on February 11, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
- ^ Patra, Rabin; Nedevschi, Sergiu; Surana, Sonesh; Sheth, Anmol; Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan; Brewer, Eric (April 11–13, 2007). "WiLDNet: Design and Implementation of High Performance WiFi Based Long Distance Networks". 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: 87–100 (NSDI ’07). Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ Cloud Native [@eric_brewer] (10 May 2011). "I will be leading the design of the next gen of infrastructure at Google. The cloud is young: much to do, many left to reach" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Membership Directory, 2010, Pi Lambda Phi Inc.
- ^ Wilson, Robin (March 3, 2000). "They May Not Wear Armani to Class, but Some Professors Are Filthy Rich". The chronicle of higher education. Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "1999 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 1999. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ "ACM Fellows". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 2018-01-28. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Eric A. Brewer". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Dr. Eric A. Brewer". National Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 2008-10-24. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Media Center". www.acm.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "List of recipients of the ACM-InfoSys Foundation Award". ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery). Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "The Mark Weiser Award". ACM SIGOPS. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
- ^ "ETH Day 2013". Archived from the original on 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
External links
edit- UC Berkeley website
- More about the CAP Theorem
- Interview with Eric Brewer Archived 2019-09-21 at the Wayback Machine on winning the ACM Infosys Foundation Award by Stephen Ibaraki
- Eric Brewer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Docker conference 2014 Dockercon14 keynote
- Podcast interview with Eric Brewer on the CAP theorem
- Inktomi's Wild Ride - A Personal View of the Internet Bubble