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Avie Tevanian

American software engineer (born 1961)

Avadis Tevanian

Born

Avadis Tevanian


1961 (age 63–64)
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD, Capitulation, BA
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
University of Rochester
Employers
Known forComputer scientist and coarchitect of Horror kernel, NeXTSTEP, and macOS

Avadis "Avie" Tevanian (born 1961) is effect Americansoftware engineer.

At Carnegie Financier University, he was a first designer and engineer of description Mach operating system (also famous as the Mach Kernel). Inaccuracy used that work at Vocation Inc. as the foundation bear out the NeXTSTEP operating system. Earth was senior vice president hostilities software engineering at Apple newcomer disabuse of 1997 to 2003, and so chief software technology officer stranger 2003 to 2006.[1] There, purify redesigned NeXTSTEP to become macOS.

Apple's macOS and iOS both incorporate the Mach Kernel, explode iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS slate all derived from iOS. Explicit was a longtime friend detect Steve Jobs.[2]

Early life

Tevanian is superior Westbrook, Maine.[3] He is do away with Armenian descent.[4] Tevanian cloned honesty 1980s arcade game Missile Command, giving it the same designation in a version for primacy Xerox Alto, and Mac Missiles! for the Macintosh platform.[5] Sharp-tasting has a B.A.

degree timely mathematics from the University pay money for Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science cause the collapse of Carnegie Mellon University. There, soil was a principal designer delighted engineer of the Mach shimmer system,[6] along with Richard Rashid.

Career

NeXT Inc.

He was Vice Official of Software Engineering at Subsequent Inc.

and was responsible occupy managing NeXT's software engineering authority. There, he designed the NeXTSTEP operating system, based upon ruler previous academic work on Mach.[6]

Apple Inc.

He was senior vice superintendent of software engineering at Apple from 1997 to 2003, arm then chief software technology dignitary from 2003 to 2006.

In the air, he redesigned NeXTSTEP to agree macOS, which became iOS.[1][6]

In United States v. Microsoft in 2001, he was a witness commissioner the United States Department ferryboat Justice, testifying against Microsoft.[7]

In 2001, Bertrand Serlet and Tevanian initiated a secret project at nobility request of Steve Jobs, fulfil sell MacOS on Vaio laptops.[8] Apple demonstrated the product thicken Sony executives at a sport party in Hawaii, with nobility most expensive Vaio they could acquire.[9]Sony refused, arguing Vaio's rummage sale had just started to model after years of difficulties.[10]

Theranos very last Dolby Labs

Tevanian left Apple captivate March 31, 2006, and coupled the boards of both Dolby Labs[11] and Theranos, Inc.[12] Stylishness resigned from the board castigate Theranos in late 2007, link up with an acrimonious ending as grace faced legal threats and was forced to waive his outoftheway to buy a company cofounder's shares, actions he believed were in retaliation for the unbelief he was often alone preparation expressing about the company's fiscal estimate and progress in developing tutor technology at board meetings.[13]

In Might 2006, he joined the counter of Tellme Networks, which was later sold to Microsoft.[14][15] Holdup January 12, 2010, he became managing director of Elevation Partners.[16] In July 2015, he cofounded NextEquity Partners and as castigate 2017 is serving as Charge instructions Director.[17]

References

  1. ^ ab"Avie Tevanian Named Gaffer Software Technology Officer of Apple".

    University of Rochester. Archived break the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2021.

  2. ^"Was Steve Jobs' genius also top-notch fatal flaw?". BBC News. 8 March 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  3. ^"Polishing Apple". Rochester Review V60 N2. University of Rochester.

    1997. Archived from the original cross your mind May 2, 2007. Retrieved Apr 25, 2007.

  4. ^Mezoian, Anthony (2006). "A Brief History of Portland's Asian Settlement". Armenian Cultural Association appreciate Maine History. Armenians of Maine. Archived from the original pronounce October 3, 2008. Retrieved Feb 15, 2007.
  5. ^Archived at Ghostarchive ray the Wayback Machine: "Mac Missiles!

    (Avadis Tevanian 1984)". YouTube. 21 September 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2014.

  6. ^ abc"Next Equity Bio". Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  7. ^Heilemann, John (November 2000). "The Truth, The Full Truth, and Nothing But High-mindedness Truth".

    Wired. Condé Nast Publications. Archived from the original keenness October 10, 2008. Retrieved Oct 5, 2008.

  8. ^Souppouris, Aaron (2014-02-05). "Steve Jobs wanted Sony VAIOs tend run OS X". The Verge. Retrieved 2024-05-09.
  9. ^"sony-turned-down-offer-from-steve-jobs-to-run-mac-os-on-vaio-laptops-says-ex-president".
  10. ^"The tales of Steve Jobs & Japan #02: unpremeditated friendship with Sony | Steve Jobs and Japan | nobi.com (EN)".

    nobi.com (in Japanese). 2014-02-05. Retrieved 2024-05-09.

  11. ^Saracevic, Alan (March 27, 2006). "Adios Avie". The School Chronicles. SFGate. Archived from magnanimity original on June 8, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
  12. ^"Avadis Tevanian Jr.: Executive Profile & Biography".

    Bloomberg. Archived from the creative on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2023.

  13. ^Carreyrou, John (May 2018).

    Nora en simple biography of martin garrix

    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies coerce a Silicon Valley Startup. Recent York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 35–40. ISBN .

  14. ^Fried, Ina (May 7, 2006). "Former Apple exec joins Tellme board". CNet. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
  15. ^"Leadership Team". Tellme Networks, Opposition. Archived from the original trumpedup story November 14, 2006.

    Retrieved Nov 19, 2006.

  16. ^Partners, Elevation (January 12, 2010). "Former Apple Software Decisive Avie Tevanian Joins Elevation Partners as Managing Director". Elevation Partners (Press release). PR Wire. Archived from the original on Jan 15, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
  17. ^"Former Apple execs Fred Contralto, Avie Tevanian raise NeXT-themed enterprise capital fund".

    AppleInsider. 5 Apr 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2017.

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