Werner Vogels (computer scientist)

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Werner Vogels in Amsterdam (2008)

Werner Hans Peter Vogels (born October 3, 1958 in Ermelo , Province of Gelderland , Netherlands ) is a Dutch computer scientist specializing in distributed systems . He is the chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon.com . It is his job to drive technology innovations within the company. Vogels has extensive internal and external responsibilities.

Life

Werner Vogels completed his computer science studies at the De Haagse Hogeschool in The Hague in June 1989 . From 1991 to 1994, Vogel was a researcher at INESC ( Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores , Institute for Systems Engineering and Computing ) in Porto , Portugal. From 1994 to 2004 he was a research fellow at Cornell University's Computer Science Department . His research mainly focused on scalable , reliable business software . Vogels obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. PhD supervisors were Henri Bal and Andrew S. Tanenbaum .

Werner Vogels founded Reliable Network Solutions in 1997 together with Kenneth Birman and Robbert van Renesse. The company owned US patents on network monitoring and multicast protocols. Between 1999 and 2002, he was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the company.

Werner Vogels took up a position as Director of Systems Research at Amazon in September 2004. He became Chief Technology Officer in January 2005 and Vice President in March of that year.

Vogels is married to Annet Vogels, a musician who used to play for the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest . They have two daughters, Laura Vogels and Kim Vogels, who both studied acting in London and moved to New York City after graduating . He lives in Seattle in the US state of Washington .

Services

Werner Vogels at the 2013 AWS Summit in New York City

Vogels is the author of many conference and academic journal articles, primarily on distributed systems technologies for enterprise software.

Vogels has been writing the blog All Things Distributed since his time as a scientist at Cornell in 2001 , which deals with the development of scalable and robust distributed systems. At the beginning he discussed the first results of his research. After moving to Amazon, the blog became partly more product-oriented, but also contains articles on general technology and industry topics. He uses his blog to provide information on topics such as eventual consistency .

Vogels described the technical details of Amazon's infrastructure in an article about Amazon Dynamo , the storage for Amazon's shopping cart . He is considered to be one of the world's leading experts for highly available and scalable systems.

In 2008 it was announced that Vogels was one of the architects behind Amazon's approach to cloud computing , Amazon Web Services (AWS). During the year Vogels continuously promoted cloud computing and AWS and their benefits for the industry. InformationWeek named Vogels CIO / CTO of the year in 2008 for its role in cloud computing . In 2010, 2011, and 2012 he was among TechTargets Top 10 Cloud Computing Leaders . In 2012, he topped Wired 's Top 10 Cloud Influencers and Thought Leaders .

Web links

Commons : Werner Vogels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Werner Vogels: Scalable Cluster Technologies for Mission Critical Enterprise Computing . Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 2003, ISBN 1-4116-0166-1 (English, handle.net - dissertation).
  2. ^ Charlene O'Hanlon: A conversation with Werner Vogels . In: ACM Queue . tape 4 , no. 4 . ACM, May 2006, p. 14-22 , doi : 10.1145 / 1142055.1142065 (English).
  3. ^ Mike Vizard: Discipline and Focus. Transcript of interview with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon . In: ACM Queue . ACM, July 14, 2008 (English, acm.org [accessed March 18, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Dan Mygind: Fra forsker til CTO hos Amazon. In: computerworld.dk. November 3, 2006, accessed March 18, 2017 (Danish).
  5. ↑ Werner Vogels: Experienced Unix / Mach System software Engineer / Manager (EUROPE). In: misc.jobs.resumes. October 4, 1990, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Jennifer L. Schenker: Q&A With Amazon's Werner Vogels. In: informilo.com. September 15, 2014, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  7. ^ Robbert van Renesse: Resume. In: cornell.edu. 2006, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Scalable computer network resource monitoring and location system. Patent US 6529953 B1. In: google.com/patents. Retrieved March 18, 2017 (English).
  9. ↑ Multicast protocol with reduced buffering requirements. Patent WO 2001061928 A2. In: google.com/patents. Retrieved March 18, 2017 (English).
  10. ↑ Resume. In: lauravogels.com. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Kim Vogels - About. In: kimvogels.actor. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  12. ^ Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, Werner Vogels: Astrolabe. A robust and scalable technology for distributed system monitoring, management, and data mining . In: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems . tape 21 , no. 2 , 2003, p. 164–206 , doi : 10.1145 / 762483.762485 (English).
  13. ↑ Thorsten Helmut von Eicken, Anindya Basu, Vineet book, Werner Vogels: U-Net. A user-level network interface for parallel and distributed computing . In: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review . tape 29 , no. 5 , December 3, 1995, pp. 40-53 , doi : 10.1145 / 224057.224061 (English).
  14. ^ List of publications by Werner Vogels in the DBLP
  15. ↑ Werner Vogels. In: Microsoft Academic Research. Retrieved March 18, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Werner Vogels: Web services are not distributed objects . In: IEEE Internet Computing . tape 7 , no. 6 , December 8, 2003, ISSN  1089-7801 , p. 59-66 , doi : 10.1109 / MIC.2003.1250585 (English).
  17. ^ All Things Distributed. Retrieved March 18, 2017 (English).
  18. ^ Werner Vogels: Eventually consistent . In: Communications of the ACM . tape 52 , no. 1 , January 2009, p. 40-44 , doi : 10.1145 / 1435417.1435432 (English).
  19. ^ Werner Vogels: Eventually consistent . In: ACM Queue . tape 6 , no. 6 , August 2008, p. 14-19 , doi : 10.1145 / 1466443.1466448 (English).
  20. ↑ Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall, Werner Vogels: Dynamo. Amazon's highly available key-value store . In: Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles - SOSP '07 . ACM, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-59593-591-5 , pp. 205–220 , doi : 10.1145 / 1294261.1294281 (English, allthingsdistributed.com ).
  21. ^ John Foley: Chief of the Year: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. In: InformationWeek. December 18, 2008, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  22. ↑ In an accompanying interview, Vogels describes details about the history of his work at Amazon: John Foley: Q&A: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. In: InformationWeek. December 19, 2008, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Dr. Werner Vogels: 2010 top cloud computing leader. In: techtarget.com. May 2010, accessed on March 18, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Dr. Werner Vogels: 2011 top cloud computing leader. In: techtarget.com. June 2011, accessed on March 18, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Top 10 cloud computing leaders in 2012. 8. Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com. In: techtarget.com. March 20, 2012, accessed March 18, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Top 10 Cloud Influencers, Thought Leaders. In: wired.com. May 2012, accessed on March 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogels, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogels, Werner Hans Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch computer scientist, CTO and Vice President of Amazon.com
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ermelo , Gelderland Province , The Netherlands