Adam Leventhal (programmer)

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name = Adam H Leventhal


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education = B.Sc. Brown University
employer = Sun Microsystems
occupation = Programmer
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website = http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/
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Adam Leventhal (born 1979 in the United States) is an American software engineer, and one of the three authors of DTrace, a dynamic tracing facility in Solaris 10 (Sun Microsystems' latest OS) which allows users to observe, debug and tune system behavior in real time. [cite web
url = http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/conference/bio//CMONYA00BDP0
title = LinuxWorld - Speaker Bios
publisher = linuxworldexpo.com] Available to the public since November 2003, DTrace has since been used to find opportunities for performance improvements in production environments. [cite web
url = http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/eurooscon/view/e_sess/7933
title = O'Reilly European Open Source Convention - 17-20 October, 2005 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
publisher = oreillynet.com] Adam joined the Solaris kernel development team after graduating cum laude from Brown University in 2001 with his B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science. In 2006, Adam and his DTrace colleagues were chosen Gold winners in The Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Awards contest by a panel of judges representing industry as well as research and academic institutions. [cite web
url = http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115755300770755096-Puh3Kr2L9dGEhvkWyO94UivIRwA_20070910.html
title = The Winners Are... - WSJ.com
publisher = WSJ.com] He currently works on several projects for Sun, creating programs of both open and closed content.

References

Articles

*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/

*cite journal
last = Leventhal
first = Adam
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title = Flash Storage Memory
journal = Communications of the ACM
volume = 51
issue = 7
pages = 47-51
publisher = Association for Computing Machinery
location = New York, NY
date = July 2008
url = http://mags.acm.org/communications/200807/?pg=49
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accessdate = 2008-07-08

External links

* [http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/ Adam Leventhal's blog at Sun]
* [http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/ Open Solaris Community]
* [http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1557/for-developers-a-conversation-with-suns-dtrace-team The Scoble Show interviews DTrace's creators]