Eric Brewer (scientist)
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Eric Brewer at TNW Conference 2015
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| Residence | Berkeley, CA | ||
| Fields | Computer Science | ||
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
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| Thesis | Portable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization (1994) | ||
| Doctoral advisor | William ("Bill") Weihl | ||
| Doctoral students | Nikita Borisov Ian Goldberg David A. Wagner |
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| Known for | CAP theorem helped to create USA.gov |
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| Notable awards | ACM Fellow NAE Member |
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| Website www |
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Eric Allen 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 is a tenured professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation (bought by Yahoo! in 2003). Working with Bill Clinton, he helped to create USA.gov, which launched in 2000.[1] He is known for formulating the CAP Theorem about distributed network applications in the late 1990s.[2] Starting in May 2011 he has been on a sabbatical at Google as VP of Infrastructure.[3]
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Education[edit]
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.[4] Later he earned an MS and PhD in EECS from MIT.
Awards[edit]
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.[5]
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]
Brewer is the 2009 recipient[9] of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences[10] "for his contributions to the design and development of highly scalable Internet services."
In 2013, the ETH Zurich honored him with the title Dr. sc. tech. (honoris causa).[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Our History". Retrieved 27 March 2015.
In June 2000, President Clinton announced the gift from the Federal Search Foundation, a nonprofit organization established by Brewer
- ^ "Lessons from Internet Services: ACID vs. BASE". Archived from the original on 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
- ^ https://twitter.com/eric_brewer/status/68051541063503872
- ^ Membership Directory, 2010, Pi Lambda Phi Inc.
- ^ "1999 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 1999. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ "ACM Fellows". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Eric A. Brewer". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Dr. Eric A. Brewer". National Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 2008-10-24. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ http://www.acm.org/news/featured/acm-infosys-09
- ^ "List of recipients of the ACM-InfoSys Foundation Award". ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery). Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ ETH Day 2013
External links[edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eric Brewer (scientist). |
- UC Berkeley website
- More about the CAP Theorem
- Interview with Eric Brewer 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
