Matt Welsh (computer scientist)
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Matt Welsh was the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and author of several books about the Linux operating system, several Linux HOWTOs,[1] and articles in the Linux Journal.[2]
In November 2010, five months after being granted tenure,[3] Welsh announced that he was leaving Harvard.[4]
He is a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.[citation needed]
Welsh received a BS from Cornell University in 1996 and MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and 2002, respectively.[5] He spent the 1996-7 school year at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and at the University of Glasgow.[2]
He created LinuxDoc.[6] He is famous for saying "Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?"[7]
[edit] Publications
- Welsh, Matt; Hughes, Phil; Bandel, David; Beletsky, Boris; Dreilinger, Sean; Kiesling, Robert; Liebovitch, Evan; Pierce, Henry (1998) [1992-1996]. Linux Installation and Getting Started (2nd ed.). Specialized Systems Consultants. ISBN 1-57831-001-6. http://tldp.org/LDP/gs/gs.html. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
- See footnotes below
[edit] References
- ^ Google internal search for Matt Welsh at The Linux Documentation Project
- ^ a b Welsh, Matt; Kaufman, Lar (August 1996) [1995]. "About the authors". In Oram, Andy. Running Linux (2nd ed.). Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly & Associates. p. 631. ISBN 1-56592-151-8.
- ^ Matt Welsh promoted to full professor; granted tenure
- ^ Why I'm leaving Harvard
- ^ "Matt Welsh". Harvard University. 2007. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
- ^ Announcement "Linuxdoc-SGML v1.1 now available" 1994-06-07
- ^ [1]
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