About the Author

Amit Singh is an operating systems researcher currently working at Google. Amit was formerly with the IBM Almaden Research Center. Previously, he worked for a Silicon Valley startup that did cutting-edge work in the virtualization of operating systems. Amit also was a member of technical staff in the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories, where he worked on operating systems and networking. He created and maintains www.osxbook.com and www.kernelthread.com.