Andrew Morton (computer programmer)

Andrew Morton (computer programmer)

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name = Andrew Keith Paul Morton



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birth_date = 1959
birth_place = England
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other_names = akpm
known_for = -mm tree
education = Electrical engineering
employer = Google
occupation = Programmer
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website = http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/
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Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel. He currently maintains a patchset known as the "mm" tree, which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by Linus Torvalds.

In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, Australia that produced a kit computer called the Applix 1616, as well as a hardware engineer for the (now-defunct) Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia.

In 2001, Andrew Morton and his family moved from Wollongong, New South Wales to Palo Alto, California.

In July 2003, Morton joined the Open Source Development Labs under an agreement with his then-employer Digeo Inc. (makers of the Moxi home entertainment media center), in which OSDL supported Morton's Linux kernel development work while he continued in his official role as principal engineer at Digeo [ [http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5459090567.html linuxdevices.com - OSDL adds Andrew Morton, Linux kernel maintainer, to its resources] ] .

Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by Google but will continue his current work in maintaining the kernel. [ [http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/6/16 Linux kernel mailing list] , August 6, 2006] [ [http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2006080303126NWCYKN Linux Today] , August 3, 2006]

Andrew Morton delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium. He is also a featured speaker at MontaVista Software's Vision 2007 Conference. [ [http://www.mvista.com/vision/index.html MontaVista VISION 2007 Embedded Linux Developers Conference ] ]

He is an expert witness for IBM in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit contesting UNIX copyrights. [ [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060719122732946 Groklaw] , July 19, 2006]

Andrew is also known by his username "akpm", as found in e-mail addresses and as part of the URL to his webpage. On being asked what the initials KP stood for, he replied, "Some say 'Kernel Programmer.' My parents said 'Keith Paul.'" [ [http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/459 LKML: Andrew Morton: Re: Please revert 5b479c91da90eef605f851508744bfe8269591a0 (md partition rescan) ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/a57/305 Andrew Morton's LinkedIn profile]
* [http://kerneltrap.org/node/10 Interview: Andrew Morton] ; Jeremy Andrews; Kerneltrap; February 14, 2002.
* [http://www.linuxworld.com.au/pp.php?id=1546887162&taxid=24 Interview] ; Nadia Cameron; LinuxWorld; July 16, 2003.
* [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040802115731932 Keynote speech; Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2004]
* [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39267255,00.htm Interview] ; Ingrid Marson; ZDNet UK; May 05, 2006.
* [http://www.fosdem.org/2007/interview/andrew+morton Interview] ; Fosdem Conference; Feb 06, 2007.
* [http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail594.html Audio of Talk at SDForum]
* [http://www.linux-magazin.de/news/video_andrew_morton_im_interview Video with Andrew Morton at Hannover Industry Trade Fair, Germany, May 2008]
* [http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/ Link to his patches]


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