David E. Culler is a computer scientist, Chair of Computer Science & Associate Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

. . He is the Principal Investigator in the LoCal project at Berkeley, and the Faculty Director of the i4Energy Center.

Culler founded Arch Rock, a company that makes wireless networked sensors. Culler invented the TinyOS

TinyOS

TinyOS is a free and open source component-based operating system and platform targeting wireless sensor networks . TinyOS is an embedded operating system written in the nesC programming language as a set of cooperating tasks and processes. It is intended to be incorporated into smartdust...

 operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

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David Culler is the son of noted computer scientist Glen Culler

Glen Culler

Glen Jacob Culler was a professor of electrical engineering and an important early innovator in the development of the Internet. Culler joined the University of California, Santa Barbara mathematics faculty in 1959 and helped put the campus in the forefront of what would become the field of...

, and the brother of distinguished pure mathematician Marc Culler

Marc Culler

Marc Edward Culler is an American mathematician who works in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. A native Californian, Culler did his undergraduate work at the University of California at Santa Barbara and his graduate work at Berkeley where he graduated in 1978. He is now at the...

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External links

• Culler's webpage