Mark Lucovsky

Mark Lucovsky is a software developer who worked for Microsoft and who is now employed by Google. In particular he is known for being a part of the team that designed and built the Windows NT operating system.

He received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1983 from the California Polytechnic State University,_San_Luis Obispo. He then worked at Digital, where he came to the attention of Dave Cutler and Lou Perazzoli. When Cutler and Perazzoli moved to Microsoft to work on their next generation operating system, they asked him to join them.

Amongst his contributions to Windows NT, was an eighty-page manual he wrote with Steve Wood defining the Windows APIs that should be available to software developers working on the Windows NT platform. He also managed check-ins to the Windows NT source code, tracking each check-in and discussing it with the developer before allowing it to be committed.

Reference

• Zachary, G. Pascal. (1994). ShowStopper!. The Free Press. ISBN 0029356717.

External links

• Windows, A Software Engineering Odyssey - a talk Mark gave at the 4th Usenix Windows Systems Symposium (August, 2000)
• The Architects: First, Get the Spec Right - interview by Nadina Kano for microsoft.com
• Cal Poly Alumni Award The engineering department of his alma mater awards Mark a Personal Achievement Award