Eric Brewer (scientist)
Eric Allen Brewer is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and vice-president of infrastructure at Google. 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.
Eric A. Brewer | |
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Eric Brewer at TNW Conference 2015 | |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | CAP theorem |
| Awards | ACM Fellow NAE Member |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Portable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | William E. "Bill" Weihl |
| Doctoral students | Nikita Borisov Ian Goldberg David A. Wagner Matt Welsh |
| Website | www |
In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation (bought by Yahoo! in 2003) and became a paper billionaire during the dot-com bubble. Working with the United States federal government during the presidency of Bill Clinton, he helped to create USA.gov, which launched in 2000. His research also included a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet, which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. He has worked at Google since 2011.