Matt Welsh (computer scientist)

Matt Welsh (computer scientist)
Matt Welsh

Matt Welsh 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] and articles in the Linux Journal.[2]

In November 2010, five months after being granted tenure,[3] Welsh announced that he was leaving Harvard.[4]

He is a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.[citation needed]

Welsh received a BS from Cornell University in 1996 and MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and 2002, respectively.[5] He spent the 1996-7 school year at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and at the University of Glasgow.[2]

He created LinuxDoc.[6] He is famous for saying "Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?"[7]

Publications

References

  1. ^ Google internal search for Matt Welsh at The Linux Documentation Project
  2. ^ a b Welsh, Matt; Kaufman, Lar (August 1996) [1995]. "About the authors". In Oram, Andy. Running Linux (2nd ed.). Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly & Associates. p. 631. ISBN 1-56592-151-8. 
  3. ^ Matt Welsh promoted to full professor; granted tenure
  4. ^ Why I'm leaving Harvard
  5. ^ "Matt Welsh". Harvard University. 2007. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/. Retrieved 2007-11-26. 
  6. ^ Announcement "Linuxdoc-SGML v1.1 now available" 1994-06-07
  7. ^ [http://thinkexist.com/quotation/are-linux-users-lemmings-collectively-jumping-off/402142.html

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