Andrew Morton (computer programmer)
Andrew Keith Paul Morton | |
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.jpg) Andrew Morton speaking at FOSDEM 2007 | |
| Born | 1959 |
| Other names | akpm |
| Education | Electrical engineering |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Employer | |
| Known for | -mm tree |
| Website | http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/ |
Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers on the Linux kernel project. He currently maintains a patchset known as the mm tree, which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official 2.6 kernel maintained by Linus Torvalds.
In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, Australia that produced a kit computer called the Applix 1616, as well as a hardware engineer for the (now-defunct) Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia.
In 2001, Andrew Morton and his family moved from Wollongong, New South Wales to Palo Alto, California.
In July of 2003, Morton joined the Open Source Development Labs under an agreement with his then-employer Digeo Inc. (makers of the Moxi home entertainment media center), in which OSDL supported Morton's Linux kernel development work while he continued in his official role as principal engineer at Digeo [1].
Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by Google but will continue his current work in maintaining the kernel. [2] [3]
Andrew Morton delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium. He is also a featured speaker at MontaVista Software's Vision 2007 Conference. [4]
He is an expert witness for IBM in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit contesting UNIX copyrights. [5]
Andrew is also known by his username akpm, as found in e-mail addresses and as part of the URL to his webpage. On being asked what the initials KP stood for, he replied, "Some say 'Kernel Programmer.' My parents said 'Keith Paul.'"[6]
References
- ^ linuxdevices.com - OSDL adds Andrew Morton, Linux kernel maintainer, to its resources
- ^ Linux kernel mailing list, August 6, 2006
- ^ Linux Today, August 3, 2006
- ^ [1]
- ^ Groklaw, July 19, 2006
- ^ http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/459
External links
- Andrew Morton's homepage
- Interview: Andrew Morton; Jeremy Andrews; Kerneltrap; February 14, 2002.
- Interview; Nadia Cameron; LinuxWorld; July 16, 2003.
- Keynote speech; Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2004
- Interview; Ingrid Marson; ZDNet UK; May 05, 2006.
- Interview; Fosdem Conference; Feb 06, 2007.
- Audio of Talk at SDForum
- Link to his patches
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