Matt Welsh (computer scientist) explained

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
Google
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]

Education

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.

Career and research

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]

The Social Network

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]

Publications

His publications include:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: It's the end of programming as we know it -- again . Joe . McKendrick . . 28 December 2022 . 31 December 2022 .
  2. https://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&safe=off&client=google-coop-np&cof=FORID%3A13%3BAH%3Aleft%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftldp.org%3BCX%3ATLDP%2520Search%2520Engine%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftldp.org%2Flogos%2Fldp2.jpg%3BLH%3A100%3BLP%3A1%3BVLC%3A%23551a8b%3BGFNT%3A%23666666%3BDIV%3A%23cccccc%3B&adkw=AELymgVCfmdB-2w4LcO_LRL563JmPpZ_buycpilePnuKeRW-2G-lDt39Q3qj4EQLHDoQf2VDhjcpZCx2Tj8IQBhgn8VwznD5kHOoxlXl6DqbTI3czdYiaRdRyhbVT_xhgU0nOtpnFOKv&boostcse=0&q=matt+welsh&btnG=Search&cx=017644269519104757279%3Agm62gtzaoky Google internal search for Matt Welsh
  3. Announcement "Linuxdoc-SGML v1.1 now available" 1994-06-07
  4. Book: Welsh . Matt . Kaufman . Lar . Andy . Oram . Running Linux . https://archive.org/details/runninglinux00wels/page/631 . 2nd . August 1996 . 1995 . . . 1-56592-151-8 . 631 . About the authors . registration .
  5. Web site: Welsh. Matt. NCSSM and how it saved my life. Volatile and Decentralized. 8 October 2012 .
  6. PhD. 892830129. University of California, Berkeley. An Architecture for Highly Concurrent, Well-Conditioned Internet Services . berkeley.edu. 2002 . . Matthew David. Welsh.
  7. Web site: Matt Welsh promoted to full professor; granted tenure. harvard.edu. https://web.archive.org/web/20101119153834/https://seas.harvard.edu/news-events/press-releases/matt-welsh-promoted-to-full-professor-granted-tenure. 2010-11-19. Anon. 2010.
  8. Web site: Matt. Welsh. 2010. Why I'm leaving Harvard. blogspot.com.
  9. Web site: NCSSM commencement speech .
  10. Web site: In Defense of Mark Zuckerberg. 10 October 2010 .
  11. Book: Dalheimer. Matthias Kalle . Welsh . Matt . Running Linux . 2013-08-23 . 5th . 2005 . . 978-0596007607 .
  12. Book: Welsh . Matt . Hughes . Phil . Bandel . David . Beletsky . Boris . Dreilinger . Sean . Kiesling . Robert . Liebovitch . Evan . Pierce . Henry . Linux Installation and Getting Started . 2009-08-14 . 2nd . 1998 . 1992-1996 . . 1-57831-001-6 .
  13. Welsh . Matt . The End of Programming . 10.1145/3570220 . . 2022 . 66 . 1 . 34–35 . 254878553 . free .