Theodore Ts'o

Infobox Person
name = Theodore Y. Ts'o


birth_date = 1968
birth_place = Palo Alto, California
death_date =
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residence = Medford, Massachusetts
nationality = American
field = computer scientist, free software developer
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alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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other_names= Ted
known_for = Involvement in FOSS
prizes = Award for the Advancement of Free Software
religion = Episcopal
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Theodore Y. "Ted" Ts'o (born 1968) is a software developer mainly known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, in particular his contributions to file systems.

He graduated in 1990 from MIT with a degree in computer science. After graduation he worked in the "Information Systems & Technology" (IS&T) department at MIT until 1999, where among other things he was project leader of the Kerberos V5 team. After IS&T he went to work for VA Linux Systems for two years.

Since December 2007, he has been the Chief Platform Strategist at the Linux Foundation. [cite web
url = http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2007/12/03/linux-kernel-developer-ted-ts%e2%80%99o-joins-linux-foundation-as-chief-platform-strategist/
title = Linux Kernel Developer Ted Ts’o Joins Linux Foundation as Chief Platform Strategist
accessdaymonth = 20 Dec
accessyear = 2007
author = The Linux Foundation
date = December 4, 2007
quote = The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Linux kernel filesystem maintainer Ted Ts’o is joining the organization as a Fellow and chief platform strategist. ] From December 2001 to his departure to the LF, he was employed by IBM where he worked to improve the performance and scalability of the Linux kernel. He plans to return there after two years at LF.

He is the primary developer and maintainer of e2fsprogs, the userspace utilities for the ext2 and ext3 filesystems.

Ts'o is currently serving as Treasurer for USENIX, and has chaired the annual Linux Kernel Developers Summit.

Ts'o is a Debian Developer, maintaining several packages, mostly filesystem-related ones, including e2fsprogs since March 2003.

Ts'o started working on the Linux kernel in July 1991, when the kernel was still in its infancy. According to Linus Torvalds he was the first Linux kernel developer from North America.

He was a member of the Security Area Directorate for the Internet Engineering Task Force, and was one of the chairs for the IPsec working group. He was one of the founding board members for the Free Standards Group, and currently serves that organization as its Chairman.

He was awarded the Free Software Foundation's 2006 Award for the Advancement of Free Software.

External links

* [http://thunk.org/tytso Homepage]
* [http://tytso.livejournal.com LiveJournal]
* [http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem] - written by Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie, published at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux (December, 1994)
* [http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/extensions-ext23 Planned Extensions to the Linux Ext2/Ext3 Filesystem] - written by Theodore Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie, USENIX 2002 Annual Technical Conference (June, 2002)

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NAME= Ts'o, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Ts'o, Ted
SHORT DESCRIPTION= American computer scientist, free software developer
DATE OF BIRTH= 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH= Palo Alto, California, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=