Brian Bershad

Brian N. Bershad is an American computer scientist specializing in operating systems .

After working as a programmer for an insurance company from 1981 to 1984, Bershad studied at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1986 and was trained by Edward Delano Lazowska and Henry M. Levy (Hank Levy) in 1990. PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington (High-Performance Cross-Address Space Communication). In the same year he obtained his master’s degree there. In 1993 he became an assistant professor there, an associate professor in 1996 and a professor in 2006.

In 1997 he founded Appliant Inc. and was its CEO in 2000/2001 . In 2006 he was co-founder and president of Illuminta Inc. In 2007 he became head of Google's Seattle office .

In 2004 he received the Mark Weiser Award and in 1990 a Presidential Young Investigator Award.

Fonts (selection)

• with CB Pinkerton: Watdogs, Extending the Unix File System, Computing Systems, Volume 1, 1988, pp. 168-188 (and Proc. 1988 Winter Usenix Conference)
• with TE Anderson, ED Lazowska, HM Levy: Lightweight Remote Procedure Call, Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), December 1989, pp. 102-113, and ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Volume 8, 1990, Pp. 37-55
• with TE Anderson, ED Lazowska, HM Levy: Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User Level Management of Parallelism. Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 1991, pp. 95-109 (and ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Volume 10, February 1992, pp. 53-79)
• with Yasushi Saito, Hank Levy. Manageability, Availability and Performance in Porcupine: a Highly Scalable, Cluster-Based Mail Service, in: 17th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) 2000 (also ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, August 2000).
• with Mike Swift, Annamalai Muthu, Hank Levy: Recovering Device Drivers, Proceedings of the 2004 Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation. December 2004 (and ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, February 2005)
• with Mike Swift, Henry M. Levy: Improving the Reliability of Commodity Operating Systems. Proceedings of the 19th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. November 2003.

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brian Bershad in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ^ Google's Brian Bershad on the Search Giant's "Second Act," and Building More Trust , Xconomy, March 13, 2009