Ian Pratt (computer scientist)

{{Short description|British computer scientist}}

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Ian Pratt is a British computer scientist. He was the chief architect of the open-source Xen project, and chairman of Xen.org.{{cite web | url=https://xenproject.org/2011/06/22/xen-summit-2011-agenda-and-speaker-lineup/ | title=Xen Summit 2011 Agenda and Speaker Lineup | date=22 June 2011 }} He was also the founder of XenSource, the company behind Xen project.{{cite web|url=https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/XenSource|title=XenSource on the Xen Project Wiki|date=2012-07-01}} After XenSource was acquired{{cite web|url=https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/misc/news/2007/09-25-xensrc.html|date=2007-09-25|title=Computer Laboratory spin out XenSource to be acquired by Citrix Systems for $500million|publisher=Cambridge Computer Laboratory}} by Citrix, he became vice president of Advanced Virtualization Products{{cite web|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-xen-of-start-ups|title= The Xen of start-ups |publisher=University of Cambridge|date=2008-05-01}} at this company, until leaving in 2011.[http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?ntref=hp_news&newsID=2313390 Press release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912065442/http://www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?ntref=hp_news&newsID=2313390 |date=2011-09-12 }}, Citrix Systems, 22 June 2011 He then became the CEO of Bromium. Bromium was eventually acquired by HP Inc in 2019, and he became the Global Head of Security at HP.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-17 |title= |url=https://press.hp.com/content/dam/sites/garage-press/press/press-releases/2021/wolf-security-and-flexworker/Ian_Pratt_HP_Bio_2021.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717112804/https://press.hp.com/content/dam/sites/garage-press/press/press-releases/2021/wolf-security-and-flexworker/Ian_Pratt_HP_Bio_2021.pdf |archive-date=2022-07-17 |access-date=2022-10-11 }}

Before working full-time at XenSource, Pratt was a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory where he taught undergraduate courses{{cite web | url=https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0405/CompArch/ | title=Computer Laboratory - Comparative Architectures }} and supervised PhD students, and was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He was the leader of the Systems Research Group, where he was also part of the XenoServer project that lead to the creation of the Xen hypervisor.{{cite podcast |date=May 2009| title=FLOSS Weekly 67| host=Randal Schwartz| url=https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/67?autostart=false|publisher=TWIT}}{{Cite conference| publisher = Association for Computing Machinery| doi = 10.1145/945445.945462| isbn = 978-1-58113-757-6| pages = 164–177| last1 = Barham| first1 = Paul| last2 = Dragovic| first2 = Boris| last3 = Fraser| first3 = Keir| last4 = Hand| first4 = Steven| last5 = Harris| first5 = Tim| last6 = Ho| first6 = Alex| last7 = Neugebauer| first7 = Rolf| last8 = Pratt| first8 = Ian| last9 = Warfield| first9 = Andrew| title = Xen and the art of virtualization| book-title = Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles| location = New York, NY, USA| series = SOSP '03| date = 2003-10-19| url = https://doi.org/10.1145/945445.945462| url-access = subscription}} He co-founded Nemesys Research Ltd, a company that broadcast video over ATM networks, which was acquired by FORE Systems in 1997.{{Cite web |title=Short Take: Fore acquires ATM tools |url=https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/short-take-fore-acquires-atm-tools/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=CNET |language=en}}

He received the Academy Silver Medal[http://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/prizes-and-medals/individual-medals/silver-medal/current-and-recent-awards Silver Medal - Past winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419002556/http://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/prizes-and-medals/individual-medals/silver-medal/current-and-recent-awards |date=19 April 2017 }}, Royal Academy of Engineering in 2009 and was elected to Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012.[http://www.theiet.org/membership/member-news/30a/raeng-fellows.cfm IET members among new Academy Fellows] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213114/http://www.theiet.org/membership/member-news/30a/raeng-fellows.cfm |date=3 March 2016 }}, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 25 July 2012 He resides in Cambridge, UK.