Eric Brewer (scientist)

Eric A. Brewer
Eric Brewer at TNW Conference 2015
Residence	Berkeley, CA
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley
Known for	CAP theorem helped to create USA.gov
Awards	ACM Fellow NAE Member
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Google
Thesis	Portable High-Performance Supercomputing: High-Level Platform-Dependent Optimization (1994)
Doctoral advisor	William ("Bill") Weihl
Doctoral students	Nikita Borisov Ian Goldberg David A. Wagner
Eric Brewer introducing himself recorded April 2015
Website	www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/

Eric Allen Brewer is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and vice-president of infrastructure at Google. His research interests include operating systems and distributed computing. He is known for formulating the CAP Theorem about distributed network applications in the late 1990s.

In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation (bought by Yahoo! in 2003) and became a paper billionaire during the dot-com bubble. Working with the United States federal government during the presidency of Bill Clinton, he helped to create USA.gov, which launched in 2000. His research also included a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet, which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. He has worked at Google since 2011.

Brewer received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from UC Berkeley where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. Later he earned a Master of Science and PhD in EECS from MIT.