Eric Brewer (computer scientist)

Eric Brewer at The Next Web 2015 conference

Eric Brewer's voice (English)

Eric Allen Brewer (* 1967 ) is an American computer scientist .

He is the main inventor of the WiLDNet scheme for wireless networks. Brewer formulated the CAP theorem about distributed network applications. In 1996 he was one of the founders of the Inktomi company . He worked for the Bill Clinton administration on the USA.gov government web portal , which went live in 2000. He took a leave of absence from his professorship at the University of California, Berkeley , to work for Google .

education

Brewer studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at UC Berkeley; there he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi Association . After completing his Bachelor of Science , he obtained a Master of Science degree from MIT and a PhD in EECS.

Prizes and awards

In 1999, the MIT Technology Review ranked him among the world's top 100 innovators under 35 . In 2007 Brewer was accepted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery . In the same year the National Academy of Engineering took him on.

Brewer received the ACM Infosys Award in 2009 . In 2013, ETH Zurich awarded him an honorary doctorate . Brewer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Eric Brewer  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Brewer at UC Berkeley
• More about the CAP theorem
• Stephen Ibaraki : Interview with Eric Brewer about winning the ACM Infosys Foundation Award
• Eric Brewer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
• Docker Conference 2014: Dockercon14 keynote on YouTube
• Podcast interview with Eric Brewer on the CAP theorem

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1973437
2. ↑ Lessons from Internet Services: ACID vs. BASE . Archived from the original on June 24, 2008. Retrieved November 6, 2008.
3. ↑ Our History . Archived from the original on June 2, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 27, 2016: "In June 2000, President Clinton announced the gift from the Federal Search Foundation, a nonprofit organization established by Brewer" 
4. ↑ according to his tweet from May 10, 2011
5. ^ Membership Directory, 2010, Pi Lambda Phi Inc.
6. ↑ 1999 Young Innovators Under 35 . Technology Review . 1999. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
7. ^ ACM Fellows . Association for Computing Machinery . Retrieved January 21, 2008.
8. ↑ Eric A. Brewer . Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved January 21, 2008.
9. ↑ Dr. Eric A. Brewer . National Academy of Engineering . Archived from the original on October 24, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 21, 2008. 
10. ↑ http://www.acm.org/news/featured/acm-infosys-09
11. ^ List of recipients of the ACM-InfoSys Foundation Award . ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery ). Archived from the original on June 25, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 25, 2010. 
12. ↑ ETH Day 2013
13. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed October 7, 2018 (English).