Distinguished Alumni
2008: HOWARD GOBIOFF
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Howard Gobioff received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon
University in 1999. He was advised by Garth Gibson and Doug Tygar and was a
key member of the CMU Parallel Data Lab. Howard's research interests were
focused on large scale distributed systems, operating systems, and security.
Before entering graduate school, Howard received a bachelor of science degree
in computer science and mathematics from University of Maryland, College
Park.
He joined Google when it was a 40-person startup, and became a key architect of the Google file system. Howard was involved in a variety of core Google projects, including the advertising system and the main crawling/indexing system. Howard believed Google is a company that could enable a simple computer scientist to fundamentally change the world by improving people's access to information. Always fascinated with Japan and Japanese culture, in 2004 he launched Google’s Tokyo R&D center. Following that adventure, he decided to try a smaller city and relocated to Google's Manhattan office. Howard was always an active and loyal alumnus, visiting CMU every year to meet up with old friends, give lectures, and recruit people to join Google. |
2007: HUGO PATTERSON
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Hugo Patterson joined Data Domain in March 2002 and served as Chief Architect through December 2008 when his title was changed to Chief Technology Officer. From November 1999 to March 2002, he was the lead architect for data availability and management at NetApp, a provider of storage and data management solutions.
Hugo holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. Hugo received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where he was a charter student in the PDL. He was advised by Garth Gibson and his Ph.D. research focused on informed prefetching and caching. |