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computer science berkeley , ca massachusetts institute of technology university of california , berkeley recorded april 2015 portable high-performance supercomputing : high-level platform-dependent optimization nikita borisov ian goldberg david a. wagner tnw -2 . jpg con eu15 - eric brewer -lrb- scientist -rrb- eric a. brewer eric brewer at tnw conference 2015 acm fellow nae member yes http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/brewerdissertation.pdf cap theorem helped to create usa.gov speech william -lrb- `` bill '' -rrb- weihl 1994 footnotes = -lcb- -lcb- listen university of california , berkeley google eric brewer -lrb- scientist -rrb- - voice - en.flac eric brewer -lrb- scientist -rrb-
 portable high-performance supercomputing : high-level platform-dependent optimization
eric brewer -lrb- scientist -rrb-

eric allen brewer is the main inventor of a wireless networking scheme called wildnet which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world .
he was made a tenured professor at uc berkeley .
in 1996 , brewer co-founded inktomi corporation -lrb- bought by yahoo! in 2003 -rrb- .
working with bill clinton , he helped to create usa.gov , which launched in 2000 .
he is known for formulating the cap theorem about distributed network applications in the late 1990s .
he is currently on a sabbatical at google .
