Eric Brewer (scientist)
Eric A. Brewer | |
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-2.jpg) Eric Brewer at TNW Conference 2015 | |
| 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 |
| Website | www |
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]
In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation (bought by Yahoo! in 2003) and became a paper billionaire during the dot-com bubble. Working with the United States federal government during the presidency of Bill Clinton, he helped to create USA.gov, which launched in 2000.[4] His research also included a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet, which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world.[5] He has worked at Google since 2011.[6]
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