Eric Brewer (scientist)
Eric A. Brewer is the main inventor of a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. He was made a tenured professor at UC Berkeley at the age of 32. In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation. He is known for formulating the CAP Theorem about distributed network applications.[1] He now works at Google.[2]
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[edit] Education
Brewer received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.[3]. Later he earned an MS and PhD in EECS from MIT.
[edit] Awards
In 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.[4]
Eric Brewer is the 2009 recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences [5] "for his contributions to the design and development of highly scalable Internet services."
In 2007, Brewer was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for the design of scalable, reliable internet services".[6][7] That same year, he was also inducted into the National Academy of Engineering "for the design of highly scalable internet services".[8]
[edit] References
- ^ "Lessons from Internet Services: ACID vs. BASE". Archived from the original on 2008-06-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20080624003730/http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/IEEE/ind-acad/brewer/sld009.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
- ^ http://twitter.com/#!/eric_brewer/status/68051541063503872
- ^ Membership Directory, 2010, Pi Lambda Phi Inc.
- ^ "1999 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 1999. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=1999. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ "List of recipients of the ACM-InfoSys Foundation Award". ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery). http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=abc&awd=165. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "ACM Fellows". Association for Computing Machinery. http://fellows.acm.org/. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Eric A. Brewer". Association for Computing Machinery. http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=UI34063&srt=year&year=2007. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Dr. Eric A. Brewer". National Academy of Engineering. http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+UNID/CC7E91BD40B720178625727D0076B46C?opendocument. Retrieved 2008-01-21.[dead link]
[edit] External links
- UC Berkeley website
- More about the CAP Theorem
- Interview with Eric Brewer on winning the ACM Infosys Foundation Award by Stephen Ibaraki
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