Dominic Giampaolo
Dominic P. Giampaolo is a
After graduating from Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine in 1987, he started studying political science at American University in Washington, D.C., but changed to computer science after one semester.[1] After completing his bachelor's degree, he did a master's degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.[1]
After graduating, he travelled to the west coast to work for
In October 1995, Giampaolo heard about the BeBox from a friend at a poker game.[1][3] Shortly after visiting the Be Inc. offices to see a demo of the computer, he began working on the BeOS, working initially in a number of areas including the kernel and the POSIX layer[2] but most notably developing the Be File System alongside Cyril Meurillon, which replaced the Old Be File System written by Benoit Schillings[4] which had itself replaced the original flat file system written by Meurillon.[1] The Be File System included a number of advances compared to other personal computer filesystems in use at the time, such as a journal to improve reliability and support for extensive metadata that can be indexed to respond quickly to searches.
After Be, Giampaolo worked at Google[2] and then QNX Software Systems.[5] While at QNX, he discovered a bug in the Instruction Fetch Unit of Intel Pentium II and Pentium III processors.[6][self-published source?]
Since March 2002, Giampaolo has been working for Apple Inc.,[4] where he is part of the macOS file system (Apple File System project) and Spotlight groups.[6]
Bibliography
- Giampaolo, Dominic (1999). Practical File System Design with the Be File System. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-497-9.
References
- ^ ISBN 0-201-35377-6.
- ^ a b c Tom Georgoulias (April 18, 2000). "Anno Dominic". frontwheeldrive.com. Archived from the original on April 10, 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-10.
- ^ "Don't Moon the Ogre". BeDope.com. Retrieved 2006-09-10.
- ^ a b Andrew Orlowski (March 29, 2002). "Windows on a database – sliced and diced by BeOS vets". The Register. Retrieved 2006-08-10.
- ^ Nicholas Heron (September 5, 2001). "Interview with QNX's Paul Leroux". OSNews. Retrieved 2006-09-10.
- ^ a b Dominic Giampaolo. "Personal homepage". Retrieved 2006-09-10.