Jeffrey Eppinger Explained

Jeffrey Lee Eppinger (born ca 1960) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur and professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science.^[1]

Biography

Eppinger was a student at Carnegie Mellon University, where in 1983, he won the George E. Forsythe Award for best undergraduate paper on his research in binary search trees.^[2] Eppinger had made empirical studies of their behaviour under random deletions and insertions.^[3]

Eppinger earned his PhD in Computer Science in 1988. His dissertation demonstrated the integration of the Mach Operating System's virtual memory with the Camelot Transaction System.^[4] This recoverable virtual memory concept was subsequently used to implement the Coda file system.

Eppinger was a co-founder of Transarc Corporation, which was acquired by IBM in 1994.^[5]

In 2001, Eppinger returned to Carnegie Mellon as Professor of the Practice in the School of Computer Science.

Personal Life

Eppinger is married with two children.

External links

• Jeff Eppinger's Personal Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carnegie Mellon University . Jeffrey Eppinger - Software and Societal Systems - School of Computer Science . 2024-04-28 . Carnegie Mellon University . en-US.
2. Eppinger . Jeffrey L. . September 1983 . An Empirical Study of Insertion and Deletion in Binary Trees . Communications of the ACM . 26 . 9 . 663–669 . 10.1145/358172.358183 . free.
3. [Donald Knuth]
4. Virtual memory management for transaction processing systems . Carnegie Mellon University . 1989 . USA . PhD . Jeffrey Lee . Eppinger . 2024-04-28.
5. Web site: Bloomberg News . 1994-08-17 . Acquisition to Bolster IBM's Networking . 2024-04-28 . Sun Sentinel . en-US.