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'''Eric A. Brewer''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, technologist, professor emeritus at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and vice-president of infrastructure at [[Google]], in 1996 founder of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi Inktomi].
His research interests include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system operating systems], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing distributed computing] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_network wireless network], and in the late 90s, he formulated the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem CAP theorem] about distributed network applications <ref>* [[Eric Brewer]] ('''2000'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=343502 Towards robust distributed systems]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/podc/podc2000.html PODC 2000], [https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262b-2004/PODC-keynote.pdf 2004 pdf]</ref>.
While graduate student at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], Eric Brewer was contributor of the massive parallel chess program [[Star Socrates|*Socrates]], as mentioned in the participant list of the [[ACM 1994]] booklet <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cceea The 24th ACM International Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1994_24th_ICCC/1994%20ICCC.062303013.sm.pdf pdf]</ref>.
