Residence Berkeley, CA Fields Computer Science Role Professor | Name Eric Brewer | |
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Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Google Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley Thesis Portable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization (1994) Known for CAP theorem
helped to create USA.gov Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley Doctoral students Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, David A. Wagner Similar Scott Shenker, Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt | ||
Doctoral advisor William ("Bill") Weihl Organizations founded Inktomi Corporation | ||
Eric brewer interview
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. He is known for formulating the CAP Theorem about distributed network applications in the late 1990s. Starting in May 2011 he has been on a sabbatical at Google as VP of Infrastructure.
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- Eric brewer interview
- Google cloud platform live fireside chat with urs ho lzle jeff dean and eric brewer
- Education
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Google cloud platform live fireside chat with urs ho lzle jeff dean and eric brewer
Education
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. Later he earned an MS and PhD in EECS from MIT.
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.
In 2007, Brewer was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for the design of scalable, reliable internet services." That same year, he was also inducted into the National Academy of Engineering "for the design of highly scalable internet services."
Brewer is the 2009 recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences "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).