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About George Neville-NeilMarshall McKusickRobert Watson

Marshall Kirk McKusick writes books and articles consults and teaches classes on UNIX- and BSD-related subjects. While at the University of California at Berkeley he implemented the 4.2BSD fast filesystem and was the Research Computer Scientist at the Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) overseeing the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD. His particular areas of interest are the virtual-memory system and the filesystem. He earned his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and did his graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley where he received masters degrees in computer science and business administration and a doctoral degree in computer science. He has twice been president of the board of the Usenix Association is currently a member of the FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors a member of the editorial board of ACMs Queue magazine a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Usenix Association ACM and AAAS. In his spare time he enjoys swimming scuba diving and wine collecting. The wine is stored in a specially constructed wine cellar (accessible from the Web at http://www.McKusick.com/cgi-bin/readhouse) in the basement of the house that he shares with Eric Allman his partner of 35-and-some-odd years and husband since 2013. George V. Neville-Neil hacks writes teaches and consults in the areas of Security Networking and Operating Systems. Other areas of interest include embedded and real-time systems network time protocols and code spelunking. In 2007 he helped start the AsiaBSDCon series of conferences in Tokyo Japan and has served on the program committee every year since then. He is a member of the FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors and was a member of the FreeBSD Core Team for 4 years. Contributing broadly to open source he is the lead developer on the Precision Time Protocol project (http://ptpd.sf.net) and the developer of the Packet Construction Set (http://pcs.sf.net). Since 2004 he has written a monthly column Kode Vicious that appears both in ACMs Queue and Communications of the ACM. He serves on the editorial board of ACMs Queue magazine is vice-chair of ACMs Practitioner Board and is a member of the Usenix Association ACM IEEE and AAAS. He earned his bachelors degree in computer science at Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts. He is an avid bicyclist hiker and traveler who has lived in Amsterdam The Netherlands and Tokyo Japan. He is currently based in Brooklyn New York where he lives with his husband Kaz Senju. Robert N.M. Watson is a University Lecturer in Systems Security and Architecture in the Security Research Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He supervises doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in cross-layer research projects spanning computer architecture compilers program analysis program transformation operating systems networking and security. Dr. Watson is a member of the FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors was a member of the FreeBSD Core Team for 10 years and has been a FreeBSD committer for 15 years. His open-source contributions include work on FreeBSD networking security and multiprocessing. Having grown up in Washington D. C. he earned his undergraduate degree in Logic and Computation with a double major in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and then worked at a series of industrial research labs investigating computer security. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Cambridge where his graduate research was in extensible operating system access control. Dr. Watson and his wife Dr. Leigh Denault have lived in Cambridge England for 10 years.