Jason Nieh
Jason Nieh is a Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Software Systems Laboratory at Columbia University. He is most well-known for his work on virtualization. He was one of the early pioneers of operating-system-level virtualization, which led to the development of Linux containers and Docker, was an early proponent of desktop virtualization, and developed key technologies for mobile virtualization, including the Linux ARM hypervisor, KVM ARM. He was also the first to introduce virtual machines and virtual appliances to teach hands-on computer science courses such as operating systems, which has now become common practice at many universities.
Nieh was the technical advisor to nine States regarding the Microsoft antitrust settlement and has been an expert witness before the United States International Trade Commission. He was Chief Scientist of Desktone, which was purchased by VMware, and currently holds the same position at Cellrox. He won the Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award, seven IBM Awards, and various best paper awards including the 2004 International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Best Paper Award, the 2011 Symposium on Operating Systems Principles Best Paper Award, and the 2012 SIGCSE Best Paper Award.[1]
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- ↑ "Jason Nieh". Columbia University. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
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