Willem van Biljon
Willem van Biljon | |
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Born | Pretoria, South Africa | 29 December 1961
Alma mater | University of Cape Town |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Willem van Biljon (born 1961) is an entrepreneur and technologist born, raised and educated in South Africa.
Van Biljon graduated from the
Computer Science
.
He held engineering and research positions at LinkData, the Institute for Applied Computer Science and the National Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Van Biljon co-founded Mosaic Software.GE and Paul Maritz.[2] The company became one of the top three payment processing software vendors in the world and was sold in 2004 to S1 Corp.[3][4]
Van Biljon worked for
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Willem built the business plan for the service and was responsible for product management and marketing for the public cloud service.[5][6][7][8]
[9]
In 2006, van Biljon left
Van Biljon co-authored seven patents in cloud computing including "Managing Communications Between Computing Nodes",[13] "Managing Execution of Programs by Multiple Computing Systems".[14]
Publications
- Hirsch, M, SR Schach, and WR van Biljon, "High-Level Debugging Systems for Pascal: Interpreter versus Compiler," Quaest. Informaticae 3 (3), pp 9–13, August 1987.
- Van Biljon WR, "A geographic database system", Proceedings Auto Carto 8, Baltimore USA, pp 689–700, March 1987.
- Van Biljon WR, "Towards a fuzzy mathematical model of data quality in a GIS", Proceedings EDIS '87 Conference, Pretoria SA, 11 pp, September 1987.
- Van Biljon, WR, DA Sewry, and MA Mulders. "Register allocation in a pattern matching code generator." Software: Practice & Experience, 17(8):521–531, August 1987.
- Van Biljon, WR, "Extending Petri Nets for Specifying Man-Machine Dialogues", Int. J. Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 28, pp 437–455. 1988.
References
- ^ "Mosaic Software selects Stratus for its EFT software solution". July 2001.
- ^ "Former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz invests in Mosaic Software". 8 October 2001.
- ^ "S1 to Buy Mosaic to Add ATM Channel to Front-Office Suite". 9 November 2004. Archived from the original on 12 November 2004.
- ^ "S1 To Acquire Financial Transaction Solution, Add ATM Channel to Complete Integrated Front-Office Suite". 9 November 2004.
- ^ "Amazon opens Cape software centre". 19 July 2005.
- ^ "Amazon opens dev centre in Cape Town". 20 July 2005.
- ^ "Amazon's Pinkham quits". 29 November 2006.
- ^ "Amazon's early efforts at cloud computing? Partly accidental". 17 June 2010.
- ^ "The Origins of Amazon's Cloud Computing". 18 June 2010.
- ^ Amazon EC2 creator launches private cloud start-up
- ^ "Nimbula Secures $15 Million Venture Capital Investment".
- ^ "Oracle and Nimbula". oracle.com. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
- ^ "(WO2007126835) MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN COMPUTING NODES, Patent page on WIPO website".
- ^ "(WO2007126837) MANAGING EXECUTION OF PROGRAMS BY MULTIPLE COMPUTING SYSTEMS, Patent page on WIPO website".