Matt Welsh (computer scientist)

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Matthew David Welsh is a computer scientist and software engineer and is currently the Head of AI Systems at Palantir, which he started after stints at Aryn, Fixie.ai, Google, xnor.ai, OctoML, and Apple.[1] He was the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and author of several books about the Linux operating system, several Linux HOWTOs,[2][3] the LinuxDoc format[4] and articles in the Linux Journal.[5]

Education

Welsh is a 1992 graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.[6]

Welsh received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1996 and Master of Science and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and 2002, respectively.[7] He spent the 1996–97 academic year at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and at the University of Glasgow.[5] His thesis was supervised by David Culler and Eric Brewer.[8]

Career and research

Welsh has led teams at Google and Apple Inc., and served a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. In November 2010, five months after being granted tenure,[9] Welsh announced that he was leaving Harvard.[10]

The Social Network

Welsh taught the operating systems class at Harvard in which Mark Zuckerberg was a student. Welsh was later portrayed by actor Brian Palermo in the movie The Social Network featuring Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook. Welsh was reportedly paid $200 for his Powerpoint slides used in the movie.[11][12]

Publications

His publications[2] include:

  • Running Linux[13]
  • Linux Installation and Getting Started[14]
  • The End of Programming[15]


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