Eric Brewer (scientist) explained

Eric A. Brewer
Fields:Computer science
Workplaces:University of California, Berkeley
Google
Alma Mater:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis Title:Portable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization
Thesis Url:http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/BrewerDissertation.pdf
Thesis Year:1994
Doctoral Advisor:William E. "Bill" Weihl
Doctoral Students:Nikita Borisov
Ian Goldberg
David A. Wagner
Matt Welsh
Known For:CAP theorem
Awards:ACM Fellow
NAE Member
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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.[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

Brewer 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

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.[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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eric Brewer . Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . University of California, Berkeley . June 4, 2018 . April 30, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210430011802/https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/brewer.html . live .
  2. Web site: Eric Brewer . LinkedIn . June 4, 2018.
  3. Web site: Lessons from Internet Services: ACID vs. BASE. 2008-11-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080624003730/http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/IEEE/ind-acad/brewer/sld009.htm . 2008-06-24.
  4. Web site: A Fallen Tech Highflier Sifts Through Bubble Memories. July 5, 2004. Los Angeles Times.
  5. Web site: About the Website USA.gov . USA.gov . June 4, 2018 . February 11, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180211001408/https://www.usa.gov/history-of-website . live .
  6. WiLDNet: Design and Implementation of High Performance WiFi Based Long Distance Networks . Rabin . Patra . Sergiu . Nedevschi . Sonesh . Surana . Anmol . Sheth . Lakshminarayanan . Subramanian . Eric . Brewer . 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation . 87–100 (NSDI ’07) . April 11–13, 2007 . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 2021-04-30 . 2021-04-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210430011802/https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi-07/wildnet-design-and-implementation-high-performance-wifi-based-long-distance . live .
  7. eric_brewer. Cloud Native. 68051541063503872. 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..
  8. Membership Directory, 2010, Pi Lambda Phi Inc.
  9. Web site: Wilson. Robin. March 3, 2000. They May Not Wear Armani to Class, but Some Professors Are Filthy Rich. live. 2021-04-30. The chronicle of higher education. 2021-04-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20210430011802/https://www.chronicle.com/article/they-may-not-wear-armani-to-class-but-some-professors-are-filthy-rich/.
  10. Web site: 1999 Young Innovators Under 35 . . 1999 . August 15, 2011 . October 15, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015081109/http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=1999 . live .
  11. Web site: ACM Fellows. Association for Computing Machinery. 2008-01-21. 2018-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20180128201201/https://fellows.acm.org/. live.
  12. Web site: Eric A. Brewer. Association for Computing Machinery. 2008-01-21. 2008-02-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20080214161910/http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=UI34063&srt=year&year=2007. live.
  13. Web site: Dr. Eric A. Brewer. https://web.archive.org/web/20081024002632/http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+UNID/CC7E91BD40B720178625727D0076B46C?opendocument. dead. 2008-10-24. National Academy of Engineering. 2008-01-21.
  14. Web site: Media Center. www.acm.org. 2021-04-30. 2021-04-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20210426091323/https://www.acm.org/media-center. live.
  15. Web site: List of recipients of the ACM-InfoSys Foundation Award . ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) . 25 June 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120402205435/http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=abc&awd=165 . 2 April 2012 . dead .
  16. Web site: The Mark Weiser Award. ACM SIGOPS. 5 July 2019. 17 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190617090410/http://www.sigops.org/awards/mw/. live.
  17. Web site: ETH Day 2013. 2021-04-30. 2019-11-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20191119151316/https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/events/eth-day/eth-day-2013.html. live.

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