Matt Welsh | |
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Born | Matthew David Welsh |
Education | North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics |
Alma mater |
Cornell University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Systems Networking Mobile computing [1] |
Institutions |
Harvard University Apple |
Thesis | An Architecture for Highly Concurrent, Well-Conditioned Internet Services (2002) |
Doctoral advisor |
David Culler Eric Brewer [2] |
Website |
www |
Matthew David Welsh is a computer scientist and software engineer and is currently the co-founder of Fixie.ai, which he started after stints at Google, xnor.ai, and Apple. [3] He was the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and author of several books about the Linux operating system, several Linux HOWTOs, [1] [4] the LinuxDoc format [5] and articles in the Linux Journal. [6]
Welsh is a 1992 graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. [7]
Welsh received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1996 and Master of Science and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and 2002, respectively. [8] He spent the 1996–97 academic year at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and at the University of Glasgow. [6] His thesis was supervised by David Culler and Eric Brewer. [2]
Welsh has led teams at Google and Apple Inc., and served a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. In November 2010, five months after being granted tenure, [9] Welsh announced that he was leaving Harvard. [10]
Welsh taught the operating systems class at Harvard in which Mark Zuckerberg was a student. Welsh was later portrayed by actor Brian Palermo in the movie The Social Network featuring Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook. Welsh was reportedly paid $200 for his Powerpoint slides used in the movie. [11] [12]
His publications [1] include: