Garth Gibson is a Computer Scientist

Computer scientist

A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

 from Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

. Born in Aurora, Ontario

Aurora, Ontario

Aurora is an affluent town in York Region, approximately 20 km north of Toronto. It is partially situated on the Oak Ridges Moraine, and is a part of the Greater Toronto Area and Golden Horseshoe of Southern Ontario.Many Aurora residents commute to Toronto and surrounding communities.In the...

, he holds a Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 and an MSc

MSC

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 in Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 from 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...

 and a B.Math in Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 from the University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...

. Dr. Gibson's principal contribution to computing was developing the RAID taxonomy of redundant data storage

Data storage device

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 systems, along with David A. Patterson and Randy Katz

Randy Katz

Randy Howard Katz is a distinguished professor at University of California, Berkeley of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.Katz received an A.B. from Cornell University , MS from UC Berkeley , and Ph.D...

. He was also involved in Informed Prefetch Computing and Network-Attached Secure Disks

Network-Attached Secure Disks

Network-Attached Secure Disks is 1997-2001 research project of Carnegie Mellon University, with the goal of providing cost-effective scalable storage bandwidth.-Overview:...

, a precursor to the SCSI

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it...

 Object storage device

Object storage device

An Object-based Storage Device is a computer storage device, similar to disk storage but working at a higher level. Instead of providing a block-oriented interface that reads and writes fixed sized blocks of data, an OSD organizes data into flexible-sized data containers, called objects...

 command set. Dr. Gibson was the initial director of the Parallel Data Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, and is also founder and Chief Technology Officer for Panasas

Panasas

Panasas, Inc., is a private, multinational computer storage company based in Sunnyvale, California. It specializes in high-performance scale-out network-attached storage optimized for Linux clusters.- History :...

, an enterprise storage

Enterprise storage

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 hardware and software company.

Dr. Gibson was married to Stephanie Jo Byram, psychologist and breast cancer activist.

External links

• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~garth
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/RAIDpaper/Patterson88.pdf
• http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/
• http://www.panasas.com