Garth Gibson

Garth Gibson
Garth Gibson at Supercomputing 2007
Born	Aurora, Ontario
Nationality	Canada
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University
Alma mater	University of Waterloo, University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	David A. Patterson, Randy Katz
Known for	RAID

Garth Alan Gibson is a Computer Scientist from Carnegie Mellon University. Gibson's principal contribution to computing was developing the RAID taxonomy of redundant data storage systems, along with David A. Patterson and Randy Katz.

Born in Aurora, Ontario, he holds a Ph.D. and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.Math in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He was involved in informed prefetch computing and network-attached secure disks, a precursor to the SCSI Object storage device command set. Gibson was the initial director of the Parallel Data Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, and founder and chief technology officer for Panasas, a computer data storage hardware and software company.

In 2005 he became the 11th awardee of the J.W. Graham Medal, named in honor of Wes Graham an early influential professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, and annually awarded to an alumnus of the University's Faculty of Mathematics.