Edouard Bugnion
Edouard Bugnion | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 EPFL |
| Known for | SimOS, VMware |
| Website | https://www.epfl.ch/labs/dcsl/ |
Edouard "Ed" Bugnion (born 1970) is a Swiss computer science professor and the co-founder of VMware.
Biography
Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.[1]
Bugnion graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from
Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Stanford University prior to co-founding VMware. While he was chief architect, VMware developed the secure desktop initiative also known as NetTop for the US National Security Agency.[3]
His primary research interests are in operating systems and computer architectures, and he was a key member of the SimOS and Disco virtual machine research teams.
After VMware, Bugnion was a founder of Nuova Systems which was funded by
EPFL, Switzerland, where he is now a Full Professor and the Vice President for Information Systems.[7]
Bugnion co-authored papers on operating systems and
platform virtualization such as “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors,” in 1997.[8]
Bugnion is also an angel investor in startup companies such as Cumulus Networks.[9]
He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017.[10]
In 2020, Bugnion took a key role in fighting
Covid19 through Exposure Notification, as a principal member of the team behind the concept and the implementation in Switzerland. He was also a member of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force
.
References
- ^ "Edouard Bugnion". Personal student web page. Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 6, 2009. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ "VMware Leadership". Archived from the original on December 29, 2004. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ "NSA hones secure desktop to run multiple OSes". Government Computer News. September 17, 2003. Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ "Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Remaining Interest in Nuova Systems". News release. Cisco systems. April 8, 2008. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ Charles Waltner (March 16, 2009). "The Evolution of Data Center 3.0". News release. Cisco systems. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ Dante Malagrino interview of Ed Bugnion (April 8, 2008). "Cisco Nexus 5000 Enables Virtualization Optimization". Promotional video by Cisco. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ "Biography at EPFL". Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- S2CID 47286484. Archived from the original(PDF) on August 13, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ "Cumulus Networks™ Brings The Power Of Linux® To Networking". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.
- ^ ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 11, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-13
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