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Eric Brewer

American computer 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.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Eric Brewer (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1964.¹

About

He is known for formulating the CAP theorem about distributed network applications in the late 1990s.

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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Eric Brewer, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

InktomiFounder¹⁷

Early life and education

Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology^{3 4}
Date not recordedUniversity of California, Berkeley^{3 4}

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. Later he earned a Master of Science and PhD in EECS from MIT. He received tenure from UC Berkeley in 2000.

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Career

Occupation: computer scientist, engineer.⁹

Date not recordedWorked at Google^{5 6}
Date not recordedWorked at University of California, Berkeley^{5 7}
Date not recordedFounded Inktomi⁸

Awards

2021Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^{10 15}
2013honorary doctor of ETH Zürich^{10 14}
2009ACM Prize in Computing^{10 13}
2009Mark Weiser Award^{10 12}
2007ACM Fellow^{10 11}

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WikidataEric Brewer: Official website, on Wikidata
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Wikimedia CommonsEric Brewer photo by Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0