Bryan Cantrill

Bryan M. Cantrill is an engineer at Sun Microsystems. Cantrill graduated from Brown University, B.Sc. in computer science. He was born in Colorado where he attained the rank of Eagle Scout.

In 2005 Bryan Cantrill was named one of the 35 Top Young Innovators by "Technology Review", MIT's magazine. Cantrill was included in the TR35 list for his development of DTrace, a function of the OS Solaris 10 that provides a non-invasive means for real-time tracing and diagnosis of software.

Articles

*cite journal
author = Bryan Cantrill
year = 2006
month = February
title = Hidden in Plain Sight
journal = ACM Queue
volume = 4
issue = 1
pages = 26–36
doi = 10.1145/1117389.1117401
id = ISSN|1542-7730
url = http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=361
accessdate = 2006-09-08
*cite conference
author = Bryan M. Cantrill, Michael W. Shapiro and Adam H. Leventhal
year = 2004
month = June
title = Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems
booktitle = Proceedings of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
url = http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix04/tech/general/full_papers/cantrill/cantrill_html/
accessdate = 2006-09-08
*cite conference
author = Bryan M. Cantrill, Thomas W. Doeppner
year = 1997
title = ThreadMon: A Tool for Monitoring Multithreaded Program Performance
booktitle = 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Volume 1: Software Technology and Architecture
url = http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/thmon/thmon.html
accessdate = 2007-08-18

External links

* [http://blogs.sun.com/bmc Bryan Cantrill's blog at Sun Microsystems]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8002801113289007228 Dtrace Review (Google Tech Talk August 15, 2007)]
* [http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html "Have you ever kissed a girl?"] Bryan Cantrill's famous response to Linux Kernel hacker David Miller.