Eric A. Brewer is a former billionaire and main inventor of a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. A billionaire is a person who has a Net worth of at least one billion units of currency such as United States dollars ( USD /US$ U An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method form device or other useful means Wireless network refers to any type of Computer network that is Wireless, and is commonly associated with a Telecommunications network whose interconnections Developing countries are countries that haven't reached Western-style standards of democratic government free market economy industrialization social programs and human rights guaranties He also was made a tenured professor at UC Berkeley at the age of only 32. Tenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job and specifically to a senior Academic 's Contractual right not to have their position terminated The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation. Inktomi Corporation was a California company that provided Software for Internet service providers It was founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley

Education

Brewer received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley and later an MS and PhD in EECS from MIT. A Bachelor of Science ( BS, BSc or BSc in the UK; less commonly S EECS (sometimes ˈiːks "eeks" is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley A Master of Science ( Latin: Magister Scientiæ; abbreviated MSc, M "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation.

Awards

In 2007, Brewer was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for the design of scalable, reliable internet services". The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society ^[1][2] That same year, he was also inducted into the National Academy of Engineering "for the design of highly scalable internet services". The United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE is a private non-profit institution which was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the ^[3]

References

External links

• UC Berkeley profile