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Eric A. Brewer, an American computer scientist, technologist, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and vice-president of infrastructure at Google, in 1996 founder of Inktomi. His research interests include operating systems, distributed computing and wireless network, and in the late 90s, he formulated the CAP theorem about distributed network applications. While graduate student at MIT, Eric Brewer was contributor of the massive parallel chess program *Socrates, as mentioned in the participant list of the ACM 1994 booklet.

=Selected Publications=

1990 ...

 * Adrian Colbrook, Eric Brewer, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, William E. Weihl (1991). An Algorithm for Concurrent Search Trees. ICPP 1991
 * Eric Brewer, Robert Blumofe (1994). Strata: A Multi-Layer Communications Library. Technical Report, MIT Laboratory for  Computer  Science, pdf
 * Eric Brewer, Bradley Kuszmaul (1994). How to Get Good Performance from the CM-5 Data Network. IPPS 1994, pdf
 * Eric Brewer (1994).  Portable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization.  Ph.D. thesis, MIT, advisor William E. Weihl
 * Adrian Colbrook, Eric Brewer, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, William E. Weihl (1996). Algorithms for Search Trees on Message-Passing Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2

2000 ...

 * Eric Brewer (2000). Towards robust distributed systems. PODC 2000, 2004 pdf
 * Eric Brewer (2001). When Everything Is Searchable. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 44, No. 3, pdf
 * David Gay, Robert Ennals, Eric Brewer (2008). Safe manual memory management. ISMM 2007
 * Zachary Anderson, David Gay, Robert Ennals, Eric Brewer (2008). SharC: checking data sharing strategies for multithreaded C. PLDI 2008

2010 ...

 * Eric Brewer (2010). A certain freedom: thoughts on the CAP theorem. PODC 2010
 * Eric Brewer (2012). Pushing the CAP: Strategies for Consistency and Availability. IEEE Computer, Vol. 45, No. 2
 * Eric Brewer (2015). Kubernetes and the path to cloud native. SoCC 2015
 * Brendan Burns, Brian Grant, David Oppenheimer, Eric Brewer, John Wilkes (2016). Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes. ACM Queue, Vol. 14, No. 1
 * Eric Brewer (2017). Spanner, TrueTime & The CAP Theorem. Google
 * Eric Brewer (2018). Kubernetes and the New Cloud. SIGMOD Conference 2018

=External Links=
 * Eric Brewer (scientist) from Wikipedia
 * Eric Brewer - The Mathematics Genealogy Project
 * Eric Brewer – Google AI
 * Eric Brewer, Google Cloud | Google Cloud Next 2019, YouTube Video

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