Eric Brewer (scientist)

Eric A. Brewer
Eric Brewer at TNW Conference 2015
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Known forCAP theorem
AwardsACM Fellow
NAE Member
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Google
ThesisPortable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization (1994)
Doctoral advisorWilliam E. "Bill" Weihl
Doctoral studentsNikita Borisov
Ian Goldberg
David A. Wagner
Matt Welsh
Websitewww.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/

Eric Allen Brewer is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley[1] and vice-president of infrastructure at Google.[2] 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.[3]

In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation (bought by Yahoo! in 2003) and became a paper billionaire during the dot-com bubble.[4] Working with the United States federal government during the presidency of Bill Clinton, he helped to create USA.gov, which launched in 2000.[5] His research also included a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet, which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world.[6] He has worked at Google since 2011.[7]

  1. ^ "Eric Brewer". Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on April 30, 2021. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  2. ^ "Eric Brewer". LinkedIn. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  3. ^ "Lessons from Internet Services: ACID vs. BASE". Archived from the original on 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
  4. ^ "A Fallen Tech Highflier Sifts Through Bubble Memories". Los Angeles Times. July 5, 2004.
  5. ^ "About the Website USA.gov". USA.gov. Archived from the original on February 11, 2018. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  6. ^ Patra, Rabin; Nedevschi, Sergiu; Surana, Sonesh; Sheth, Anmol; Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan; Brewer, Eric (April 11–13, 2007). "WiLDNet: Design and Implementation of High Performance WiFi Based Long Distance Networks". 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: 87–100 (NSDI ’07). Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  7. ^ Cloud Native [@eric_brewer] (May 10, 2011). "I will be leading the design of the next gen of infrastructure at Google. The cloud is young: much to do, many left to reach" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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