| Matt Welsh | |
| Birth Name: | Matthew David Welsh |
| Thesis Title: | An Architecture for Highly Concurrent, Well-Conditioned Internet Services |
| Thesis Year: | 2002 |
| Thesis Url: | https://worldcat.org/title/892830129 |
| Education: | North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics |
| Fields: | Systems Networking Mobile computing |
| Alma Mater: | Cornell University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
| Doctoral Advisor: | David Culler Eric Brewer |
| Workplaces: | Harvard University Apple |
Matthew David Welsh is a computer scientist and software engineer and is currently the co-founder of Fixie.ai, which he started after stints at Google, xnor.ai, and Apple.[1] He was the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and author of several books about the Linux operating system, several Linux HOWTOs,[2] the LinuxDoc format[3] and articles in the Linux Journal.[4]
Welsh is a 1992 graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.[5]
Welsh received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1996 and Master of Science and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and 2002, respectively.[6] He spent the 1996–97 academic year at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and at the University of Glasgow.[4] His thesis was supervised by David Culler and Eric Brewer.
Welsh has led teams at Google and Apple Inc., and served a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. In November 2010, five months after being granted tenure,[7] Welsh announced that he was leaving Harvard.[8]
Welsh taught the operating systems class at Harvard in which Mark Zuckerberg was a student. Welsh was later portrayed by actor Brian Palermo in the movie The Social Network featuring Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook. Welsh was reportedly paid $200 for his Powerpoint slides used in the movie.[9] [10]
His publications include:
