Jeffrey Eppinger
{{Short description|American computer scientist (born c. 1960)}}
Jeffrey Lee Eppinger (born ca 1960){{Citation needed|date=April 2024}} is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur and professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science.{{Cite web |last=Carnegie Mellon University |title=Jeffrey Eppinger - Software and Societal Systems - School of Computer Science |url=http://cms-staging.andrew.cmu.edu/s3d/people/core-faculty/eppinger-jeffrey.html |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Carnegie Mellon University |language=en-US}}
Biography
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.{{cite journal |last1=Eppinger |first1=Jeffrey L. |date=September 1983 |title=An Empirical Study of Insertion and Deletion in Binary Trees |journal=Communications of the ACM |volume=26 |issue=9 |pages=663–669 |doi=10.1145/358172.358183 |doi-access=free}} Eppinger had made empirical studies of their behaviour under random deletions and insertions.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}}
Eppinger earned his PhD in Computer Science in 1988. His dissertation demonstrated the integration of the Mach Operating System's virtual memory with the Camelot Transaction System.{{Cite thesis |title=Virtual memory management for transaction processing systems |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/75934 |publisher=Carnegie Mellon University |date=1989 |place=USA |degree=PhD |first=Jeffrey Lee |last=Eppinger |access-date=2024-04-28}} This recoverable virtual memory concept was subsequently used to implement the Coda file system.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
Eppinger was a co-founder of Transarc Corporation, which was acquired by IBM in 1994.{{Cite web |last=Bloomberg News |date=1994-08-17 |title=Acquisition to Bolster IBM's Networking |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1994/08/17/acquisition-to-bolster-ibms-networking/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=Sun Sentinel |language=en-US}}
In 2001, Eppinger returned to Carnegie Mellon as Professor of the Practice in the School of Computer Science.
Personal life
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External links
- [https://www.jeffeppinger.com Jeff Eppinger's Personal Website]
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Category:American computer scientists