Robert P. Goldberg

Robert P. Goldberg (* 1944 / 1945 in Brooklyn , New York ; † 25. February 1994 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American computer scientist known for his research in the areas of operating systems and virtualization is known.

Life

Robert P. Goldberg graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1965 and a Master of Arts in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1969 . He then completed a doctoral degree in applied mathematics at Harvard University, which he obtained in 1973 with the academic title Ph.D. completed. From 1966 to 1972 he served as a member of MIT's research staff for Lincoln Laboratories and Project MAC. From 1972 to 1972 Goldberg was a consultant for the development chief of Honeywell's Boston computer division.

His teaching experience has included lecturing at Brandeis University and Northeastern University. Goldberg was also a member of the ACM and organized the Virtual Machine Sessions as part of the National Computer Conference of 1973. He also acted as Chairman and Proceedings Editor for the ACM SIGARCH-SIGOPS Workshop for Virtual Computer Systems of 1973, gave numerous lectures and published a number of articles different aspects of virtual systems. Goldberg also works for the Honeywell Information Systems Technical Office in Waltham, MA and has lectured at Harvard University in computer science. His main research interests at the time were computer architectures , operating system design and data management systems.

In 1978 Goldberg filed a patent on Honeywell's behalf with the US Patent Office under the designation “Hardware virtualizer for supporting recursive virtual computer systems on a host computer system” (Patent No. 4253145). The patent was accepted in 1981 and is owned by Honeywell Information Systems Inc.

In 1975 Goldberg founded a company called "BGS Systems, Inc." in the basement of Jeffrey Buzen's house together with Jeffrey Buzen and Harold Schwenk (whose last names can also be found in the company's initials). Over the next 15 years, the company moved a total of five times, each within Waltham.

The company developed products for capacity management and capacity planning for all important computer platforms of the time. In addition, BGS offered products for managing operating systems such as UNIX , MVS , VM , OpenVMS , AS / 400 , OS / 2 and Windows NT . By the early 1980s, over 30,000 customer installations of BEST / 1 software had been recorded worldwide. The product BEST / 1, which was based on the queuing theory and developed by the three founders themselves, was promoted by BGS as the de facto standard for capacity management and planning in heterogeneous, distributed environments. (In 1998, BGS was promoted by BMC Software , Inc. The total value of the transaction was estimated at approximately $ 285 million.)

Goldberg died on February 25, 1994.

Services

Together with Gerald J. Popek , Goldberg proposed the virtualization requirements of Popek and Goldberg , which formulate a number of conditions for a processor architecture , the fulfillment of which enables efficient virtualization based on this architecture. As part of his doctoral thesis “Architectural Principles for Virtual Computer Systems”, he developed a classification for hypervisors that has become the quasi-standard in the field of virtualization of computer systems.

Publications

• Robert P. Goldberg: Architectural Principles for Virtual Computer Systems. Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1972.
• Robert P. Goldberg: Survey of Virtual Machine Research. Honeywell Information Systems and Harvard University, 1974.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Survey of Virtual Machine Research
2. ↑ Patent number: 4253145 "Hardware virtualizer for supporting recursive virtual computer systems on a host computer system"
3. ^ BGS Systems, Inc.
4. ↑ BMC Software Completes Acquisition of BGS Systems ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
5. ↑ Mentioning of his death in a statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission
6. ^ Robert P. Goldberg, 49 Software entrepreneur, scholar. (No longer available online.) In: The Boston Globe. February 27, 1994, archived from the original on January 16, 2017 ; accessed on January 16, 2017 (English). 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.  
7. ↑ Gerald J. Popek, Robert P. Goldberg: Formal requirements for virtualizable third generation architectures . 1973, p. 121 , doi : 10.1145 / 800009.808061 .