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Jeffrey Eppinger

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Jeffrey Lee Eppinger (born ca 1960)[citation needed] is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur and professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science.[1]

Biography

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Eppinger was a student at Carnegie Mellon University, where in 1983, he won the George E. Forsythe Award for best undergraduate paper on his research in binary search trees.[1][2] Eppinger had made empirical studies of their behaviour under random deletions and insertions.[3]

Eppinger earned his PhD in Computer Science in 1988.[1] His dissertation demonstrated the integration of the Mach Operating System's virtual memory with the Camelot Transaction System.[4] This recoverable virtual memory concept was subsequently used to implement the Coda file system.[citation needed]

Eppinger was a co-founder of Transarc Corporation, which was acquired by IBM in 1994.[1][5]

In 2001, Eppinger returned to Carnegie Mellon as Professor of the Practice in the School of Computer Science.[1]

Personal Life

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Eppinger is married with two children.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Carnegie Mellon University. "Jeffrey Eppinger - Software and Societal Systems - School of Computer Science". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  2. ^ Eppinger, Jeffrey L. (September 1983). "An Empirical Study of Insertion and Deletion in Binary Trees". Communications of the ACM. 26 (9): 663–669. doi:10.1145/358172.358183.
  3. ^ Donald Knuth - TAOCP Volume 3, pp. 434-5: Sorting and Searching. Second Edition (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1998), xiv+780pp.+foldout. ISBN 0-201-89685-0
  4. ^ Eppinger, Jeffrey Lee (1989). Virtual memory management for transaction processing systems (PhD thesis). USA: Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  5. ^ Bloomberg News (1994-08-17). "Acquisition to Bolster IBM's Networking". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
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