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		Eric Allen Brewer, an American computer scientist and tenured professor at University of California, Berkeley, founder of the Federal Search Foundation, which built FirstGov, now USA.gov, the official web portal of the United States federal government, formerly, founder and chief scientist of Inktomi Corporation, now part of Yahoo!, and known for formulating the CAP theorem about distributed network applications in the late 1990s ^[1]. He received a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from UC Berkeley and earned an M.Sc. (1991) and Ph.D. (1994) in EECS from MIT under William E. Weihl on high-performance parallel computing ^[2]. At MIT, he also worked with Charles Leiserson, Robert Blumofe and Bradley Kuszmaul, and contributed to the *Socrates chess program for the Connection Machine CM-5 as mentioned in the ACM 1994 booklet ^[3].
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Selected Publications

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1990 ...

Eric Brewer (1991). Aspects of a high-performance parallel architecture simulator. Master's thesis, MIT
Adrian Colbrook, Eric Brewer, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, William E. Weihl (1991). Proteus: A High-Performance Parallel-Architecture simulator. MIT/LCS/TR-516, pdf
Adrian Colbrook, Eric Brewer, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, William E. Weihl (1991). An Algorithm for Concurrent Search Trees. ICPP 1991
Eric Brewer, Carl Waldspurger (1992). Preventing Recursion Deadlock in Concurrent Object-Oriented Systems. IPPS 1992
Eric Brewer, William E. Weihl (1993). Developing Parallel Applications Using High-Performance Simulation. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging 1993
Eric Brewer (1994). Portable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization. Ph.D. thesis, MIT, advisor William E. Weihl, pdf
Eric Brewer, Robert Blumofe (1994). Strata: A Multi-Layer Communications Library. Technical Report, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, pdf
Eric Brewer, Bradley Kuszmaul (1994). How to Get Good Performance from the CM-5 Data Network. IPPS 1994

Eric Brewer (2001). When everything is searchable Communications of the ACM, Vol. 44, No. 3, pdf
Eric Brewer (2002). Thinking across Layers: What Do We Want Out of a Network? Hot Interconnects 2002
Eric Brewer et al. (2005). The Case for Technology in Developing Regions. IEEE Computer, June 2005,pdf

Page	Date Edited
ACM 1994	May 5, 2017
Bradley Kuszmaul	Oct 12, 2016
Eric Brewer	Oct 12, 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Jan 24, 2017
Mathematician	Apr 9, 2018
People	Feb 28, 2018
Robert Blumofe	Jun 15, 2015
Star Socrates	Oct 12, 2016
University of California, Berkeley	Sep 5, 2016

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