Eric A. Brewer is a former billionaire and main inventor of a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. He also was made a tenured professor at UC Berkeley at the age of 32. In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation. He is known for promoting the CAP Theorem about distributed network applications. [1]
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Education
Brewer received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley and later an MS and PhD in EECS from MIT.
Awards
In 2007, Brewer was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for the design of scalable, reliable internet services".[2][3] That same year, he was also inducted into the National Academy of Engineering "for the design of highly scalable internet services".[4]
References
- ^ "Lessons from Internet Services: ACID vs. BASE". http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/IEEE/ind-acad/brewer/sld009.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
- ^ "AMC Fellows". Association for Computing Machinery. http://fellows.acm.org/. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Eric A. Brewer". Association for Computing Machinery. http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=UI34063&srt=year&year=2007. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ "Dr. Eric A. Brewer". National Academy of Engineering. http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+UNID/CC7E91BD40B720178625727D0076B46C?opendocument. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
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