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Avadis Tevanian

Avadis "Avie" Tevanian is a former Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Computer from 1997 to 2003, and a former Chief Software Technology Officer from 2003 to 2006. He is a member of the board of embedded software tools company Green Hills Software. Tevanian was responsible for setting company-wide software technology direction at Apple.

Originally from Maine,[1] Avie Tevanian received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Tevanian, an American of Armenian descent,[2] was an important figure in the development of the Mach kernel while at Carnegie Mellon; he later worked for NeXT Computer and later at Apple, both times brought over by Steve Jobs. At Apple, he was the primary figure in the development of Mac OS X. In United States v. Microsoft, he was a witness for the United States Department of Justice, testifying against Microsoft.[3]

Tevanian left Apple on March 31, 2006.[4] In May 2006, it was announced that Tevanian had joined the board of Tellme Networks.[5][6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadis_Tevanian

у Линуса Торвальдса в его автобиографичексой книге "Just for Fun ..." есть кусочек о Теваняне

Встреча состоялась в штаб квартире Apple в аллее Бесконечного цикла. Меня встретили Джобе и его главный технарь Эви Теванян. В то время Apple как раз начала работать над OS X, операционной системой на базе Unix, которую им удалось закончить только к сентябрю 2000 го. Встреча проходила неформально.

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Эви Теванян работал над Mach еще на стадии университетского проекта. Мне было интересно обсудить проблемы, волновавшие их со Стивом. В то же время мы принципиально расходились по техническим вопросам. Я не видел смысла для специалистов по открытым исходникам и Linux ввязываться в это дело. Конечно, я понимал, зачем они хотели привлечь разработчиков открытого ПО к своей системе: они видели огромный потенциал Linux сообщества. Не думаю, впрочем, что они осознавали его полностью. Вряд ли Джобе понимал, что у Linux потенциально больше пользователей, чем у Apple, хотя пользовательская база у них и разная. И вряд ли Стив так же решительно отмел бы Linux в качестве операционной системы для настольных компьютеров сегодня, как сделал это три года назад.

Я объяснил, чем мне не нравится Mach. Легко понять, что это не вызвало у моих собеседников энтузиазма. Безусловно, они и раньше слышали эти аргументы. Я был явно зациклен на Linux, а Теванян – на Mach. Было интересно послушать их рассуждения о технических вопросах. Одна из очевидных для меня проблем заключалась в поддержке новой операционной системой старых Mac приложений. Они планировали справиться со всеми старыми программами с помощью уровня совместимости. Все старые приложения должны были работать с помощью нового дополнительного процесса. Но один из главных недостатков старой Mac системы – это отсутствие защиты памяти, а такое решение его никак не устраняло. Получалось, что защита памяти будет реализована только для новых приложений. Мне это казалось бессмысленным.

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Yervant Zorian

Yervant Zorian is the Chief Technology Advisor of LogicVision Inc. Previously, he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, responsible for developing embedded test strategies for cores, chips and multi-chip modules. He received an MSc degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, a PhD in electrical engineering from McGill University.

Dr. Zorian is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Design & Test of Computers and as the Chair of the Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) of IEEE Computer Society. He is the founder and chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Testing Embedded Core-based Systems (TECS) and the IEEE P1500 Embedded Core Test standardization Working Group. He holds several U.S. patents and has published more than one hundred papers and two books. Dr. Zorian received a number of best paper awards and is a Fellow of IEEE.

http://asic.union.edu/Asic99/prodet99.html

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Christopher Soghoian

Christopher Soghoian (born c. 1981) is a blogger, activist and cybersecurity Ph.D. student at Indiana University. He gained notoriety as the creator of a website that generated fake airline boarding passes.

He is currently a student fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.[1]

Since September 2007, Soghoian has published his blog, Surveillance State [1], at CNET Networks' Blogger Network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Soghoian

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Leonid Khachiyan

Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan (Armenian: Լեոնիդ Գենրիխովիչ Խաչիյան; Russian: Леонид Генрихович Хачиян; May 3, 1952 – April 29, 2005) was a Russian mathematician of Armenian descent who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most famous for his Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this algorithm was shown to be impractical due to the high degree of the polynomial in its running time, it has inspired other randomized algorithms for convex programming and is considered a significant theoretical breakthrough.

Khachiyan was born in St. Petersburg and moved to Moscow with his parents at age 9. There he later earned a Ph.D. in computational mathematics in 1978 and a D.Sc. in computer science in 1984, both from the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1982 he won the prestigious Fulkerson Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics.

Prior to coming to the United States in 1989, Khachiyan held a series of research and teaching positions at the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1989 he joined Cornell University’s School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering as a visiting professor and had been at Rutgers since 1990.

After coming to the States, Khachiyan's work continued some of its old themes, like his work on the complexity of maximal volume inscribed ellipsoids and his fascinating paper on rounding polytopes, and added some new ones. He wrote a series of papers with Bahman Kalantari on various matrix scaling and balancing problems.

Khachiyan is survived by his wife of 20 years and two daughters who currently live in the United States. He is also survived by his father, a retired professor of theoretical mechanics, his mother, a retired civil engineer, and two brothers, all of whom live in Moscow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Khachiyan

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Boris Babaian

Boris Artashesovich Babaian (Russian: Борис Арташеcович Бабаян) (born Baku, 20 December 1933) is a Russian (Soviet) supercomputer architect, notable as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union.

Babaian was born in Baku to an Armenian family. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1957. He completed his Ph.D. in 1964 and his doctorate of science in 1971.

From 1956 to 1996, Babaian worked in the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering, where he eventually became chief of the hardware and software division. Babaian and his team built their first computers during the 1950s. In the 1970s, as a deputy (one of 15 other deputies) of chief architect Burtsev V. S. he worked on the first superscalar computer, the Elbrus-1. Using these computers in 1978, ten years before commercial applications appeared in the West, the Soviet Union developed its missile systems and its nuclear and space programs.

Elbrus-3 computer have been produced by Babaian's team. It was built using an architecture that is called Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC).

From 1992 to 2004, Babaian held senior positions in the Moscow Center for SPARC Technology and Elbrus International. In these roles he led the development of Elbrus2000 (single-chip implementation of Elbrus-3) and Elbrus90micro (SPARC computer based on domestically developed microprocessor) projects.

Since August 2004, Babaian is the Director of Architecture for the Software and Solutions Group in Intel Corporation and scientific advisor of the Intel R&D center in Moscow. He leads efforts in such areas as compilers, binary translation and security technologies. He became the second European holding the Intel Fellow title (after Norwegian, Tryggve Fossum).

Babaian was awarded the two highest honors in the former Soviet Union: the USSR State Prize for Achievement in 1974 in the field of computer-aided design, and the Lenin Prize in 1987 for the Elbrus-2 supercomputer. Since 1984, he has been a corresponding member of the Academy of Science of USSR (later - Russian Academy of Science). As of 2007[update], he serves as professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and holds the Microprocessor Technology chair based in Moscow R&D center of Intel Corporation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Babaian

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Boris Aronov

Boris Aronov is a computer scientist, currently a professor at Polytechnic Institute of New York University. His main area of research is computational geometry.

Aronov earned his B.A. in computer science and mathematics in 1984 from Queens College, City University of New York. He went on to graduate studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, where he received his M.S. in 1986 and Ph.D. in 1989.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Aronov

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Sergey Mergelyan

Sergey Mergelyan (Armenian: Սերգեյ Մերգելյան; born 19 May 1928 in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine; died 20 August 2008 in Los Angeles, USA) is an Armenian scientist. He graduated from Yerevan State University in 1947. In 1952 he was awarded USSR State Prize. In 1953, when he was just 25 he became corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences).

Sergey Mergelyan played a leading role in establishing Yerevan Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines (YerSRIMM) in 1956. He became the first director of the institute which many called "Mergelyan Institute".

His works include theory of functions of complex variables, theory of approximation, and theory of potential and harmonic functions. In 1951 he formulated the famous result from complex analysis called Mergelyan's theorem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergelyan

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Rafi Haladjian

Rafi Haladjian (Armenian: Րաֆֆի Հալաջյան) (born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a French-Armenian businessman, the inventor of Nabaztag. In 1978 he moved to France, studied lingustics. In June, 1994, he founded FranceNet - the first ISP in France. In 2000 FranceNet became Fluxus, and in 2001 was sold to British Telecom. Shortly after the sale, Rafi co-founded Violet [1] and founded Ozone [2] companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafi_Haladjian

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David Yang

David Yang (Armenian: Դավիդ Յան, Russian: Давид Ян), born 1968, is the ABBYY Software House founder and Board Chairman, as well as the Cybiko, Inc. founder.

David Yang is born in 1968 in Yerevan, Armenia, to a Chinese father and Armenian mother, both physicists. He spent his first 17 years in Armenia before enrolling in the prestigious Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He graduated the Faculty of General and Applied Physics in 1992, with a M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics.

David Yang is among the world’s leading high technology entrepreneurs and an author of many patents and scientific publications. His profile is included in the “Who is Who 2001” U.S. directory. In 2001-2002, the World Economic Forum in Davos named Yang among the 100 “World Technology Pioneers”. He has been ranked among the top 20 technology professionals by computer industry magazines within the Russian Federation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yang

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Jack Arabian

Famous American computer scientist of Armenian descent. Author of many books, including Computer Integrated Electronics Manufacturing and Testing, Concurrent and Comparative Discrete Event Simulation, Implications of the Technique for Dynamic High Speed Functional Testing, etc.

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Vahram Mouradian

Armenian inventor, a 1984 graduate of the Polytechnic Institute in Yerevan from which he received his Ph. D. in electronic engineering and computer science. He is the main inventor of the Glucoband http://www.calistomedical.com/ (and who owned Yerevan's Leda Systems until selling it off to Synopsys.

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Vahram_Mouradian

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Olvi L. Mangasarian

John von Neumann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Sciences

Research Scientist Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~olvi/

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Gurgen Khachatrian

Full member of Armenian National Academy of Sciences

Design and cryptanalysis of block ciphers, development of SAFER+ and SAFER++ algorithms. SAFER+ was one of the candidates for Advanced Encryption Standard and is chosen as an algorithm for a message authentication for BLUETOOTH technology - the main technology for the short-range wireless networking. SAFER++ was the finalist candidate algorithm for the New European Schemes for Signature, Integrity and Encryption project.

http://cis.aua.am/faculty_accomplishments.html#gur

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Bruce Momjian is a co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Momjian is employed by Software Research Associates (SRA) in their PostgreSQL support division. Previously, he was vice president of Database Development at Great Bridge LLC, another PostgreSQL support company. He has spoken at many international open source conferences.

http://momjian.us/main/faq.html