Berkeley Prof Helped Divvy Up Search to Many Servers
A connection to the University of California at Berkeley–and a lengthy record for innovations–seem to be winning attributes in this year’s big computing prizes. Eric Brewer has both.
The Association for Computing Machinery on Monday is announcing that the Berkeley computer-science professor is the winner of the latest ACM-Infosys Foundation award. (The foundation set up by Infosys (INFY), a computer-services firm based in India, sponsors a $150,000 prize along with the award).
Brewer, 43, is being recognized for his contribution to the development of “highly scalable Internet services.” That means breaking down jobs that once required large expensive server systems so they can be handled by many inexpensive, small machines–the way Google (GOOG) and other Web farms now routinely operate.
