Garth Gibson

Garth Gibson
Garth Gibson at Supercomputing 2007
Born	Aurora, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Waterloo (BMath) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Known for	RAID
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Vector Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral advisor	David A. Patterson Randy Katz

Garth Alan Gibson is a computer scientist from Carnegie Mellon University. Gibson developed the RAID taxonomy of redundant data storage systems, along with David A. Patterson and Randy Katz.

Biography

Born in Aurora, Ontario, he holds a Ph.D. and a M.S. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.Math in computer science from the University of Waterloo. He was involved in informed prefetch computing and network-attached secure disks, a precursor to the SCSI object storage device command set. Gibson was the initial director of the Parallel Data Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, and founder and chief technology officer for Panasas, a computer data storage hardware and software company. Gibson was the first president and chief executive officer of the Vector Institute.

In 2005 he became the 11th awardee of the J.W. Graham Medal, named in honor of Wes Graham an early influential professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, and annually awarded to an alumnus of the university's Faculty of Mathematics.

See also

• List of University of Waterloo people

External links

• Garth Gibson, biography - Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
• Panasas
• Parallel Data Lab