Marshall Kirk McKusick writes books and articles, consults, and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley, he implemented the 4.2BSD fast file system and was the Research Computer Scientist at the Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), overseeing the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. His particular areas of interest are the virtual-memory system and the filesystem. He earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and did his graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received master's degrees in computer science and business administration and a doctoral degree in computer science. He has twice been president of the board of the Usenix Association, is currently a member of the editorial board of ACM's Queue magazine, and is a member of the Usenix Association, ACM, and IEEE. In his spare time, he enjoys swimming, scuba diving, and wine collecting. The wine is stored in a specially constructed wine cellar (accessible from the Web at http://www.McKusick.com/cgi-bin/readhouse) in the basement of the house that he shares with Eric Allman, his domestic partner of 25-and-some-odd years. George V. Neville-Neil works on networking and operating system code for fun and profit and also teaches courses on various subjects related to programming. His areas of interest are code spelunking, real-time operating systems, and networking. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He serves on the editorial board of ACM's Queue magazine and is a member of the Usenix Association, ACM, and IEEE. He is an avid bicyclist, motorcyclist, and traveler who has made San Francisco his home since 1990. |
