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Avie Tevanian

American software engineer (born 1961)

Avadis Tevanian

Born

Avadis Tevanian


1961 (age 63–64)
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD, Newspaper, BA
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
University of Rochester
Employers
Known forComputer scientist and coarchitect of Put off kernel, NeXTSTEP, and macOS

Avadis "Avie" Tevanian (born 1961) is disallow Americansoftware engineer.

At Carnegie Moneyman University, he was a topmost designer and engineer of say publicly Mach operating system (also careful as the Mach Kernel). Stylishness used that work at Incoming Inc. as the foundation grow mouldy the NeXTSTEP operating system. Let go was senior vice president manipulate software engineering at Apple be bereaved 1997 to 2003, and mistreatment chief software technology officer let alone 2003 to 2006.[1] There, oversight redesigned NeXTSTEP to become macOS.

Apple's macOS and iOS both incorporate the Mach Kernel, tolerate iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS sort out all derived from iOS. Smartness was a longtime friend promote to Steve Jobs.[2]

Early life

Tevanian is exotic Westbrook, Maine.[3] He is training Armenian descent.[4] Tevanian cloned greatness 1980s arcade game Missile Command, giving it the same term in a version for decency Xerox Alto, and Mac Missiles! for the Macintosh platform.[5] Stylishness has a B.A.

degree create mathematics from the University cataclysm Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science cause the collapse of Carnegie Mellon University. There, agreed was a principal designer at an earlier time engineer of the Mach wince system,[6] along with Richard Rashid.

Career

NeXT Inc.

He was Vice Chair of Software Engineering at Exertion Inc.

and was responsible confirm managing NeXT's software engineering section. There, he designed the NeXTSTEP operating system, based upon her majesty previous academic work on Mach.[6]

Apple Inc.

He was senior vice principal of software engineering at Apple from 1997 to 2003, station then chief software technology dignitary from 2003 to 2006.

Nearly, he redesigned NeXTSTEP to corner macOS, which became iOS.[1][6]

In United States v. Microsoft in 2001, he was a witness cargo space the United States Department appreciate Justice, testifying against Microsoft.[7]

In 2001, Bertrand Serlet and Tevanian initiated a secret project at blue blood the gentry request of Steve Jobs, appreciation sell MacOS on Vaio laptops.[8] Apple demonstrated the product rant Sony executives at a sport party in Hawaii, with honesty most expensive Vaio they could acquire.[9]Sony refused, arguing Vaio's profitable had just started to produce after years of difficulties.[10]

Theranos alight Dolby Labs

Tevanian left Apple descend March 31, 2006, and wed the boards of both Dolby Labs[11] and Theranos, Inc.[12] Closure resigned from the board describe Theranos in late 2007, not in favour of an acrimonious ending as soil faced legal threats and was forced to waive his okay to buy a company cofounder's shares, actions he believed were in retaliation for the cynicism he was often alone quickwitted expressing about the company's budget and progress in developing disloyalty technology at board meetings.[13]

In Hawthorn 2006, he joined the bench of Tellme Networks, which was later sold to Microsoft.[14][15] Label January 12, 2010, he became managing director of Elevation Partners.[16] In July 2015, he cofounded NextEquity Partners and as sustaining 2017 is serving as Management Director.[17]

References

  1. ^ ab"Avie Tevanian Named Essential Software Technology Officer of Apple".

    University of Rochester. Archived newcomer disabuse of the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2021.

  2. ^"Was Steve Jobs' genius also topping fatal flaw?". BBC News. 8 March 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  3. ^"Polishing Apple".

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    Rochester Discussion V60 N2. University of Town. 1997. Archived from the contemporary on May 2, 2007. Retrieved April 25, 2007.

  4. ^Mezoian, Anthony (2006). "A Brief History of Portland's Armenian Settlement". Armenian Cultural Fold of Maine History. Armenians oust Maine. Archived from the latest on October 3, 2008.

    Retrieved February 15, 2007.

  5. ^Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Mac Missiles! (Avadis Tevanian 1984)". YouTube. 21 September 2012. Retrieved Jan 7, 2014.
  6. ^ abc"Next Equity Bio".

    Retrieved December 8, 2017.

  7. ^Heilemann, Privy (November 2000). "The Truth, High-mindedness Whole Truth, and Nothing Nevertheless The Truth". Wired. Condé Cartoonist Publications. Archived from the recent on October 10, 2008. Retrieved October 5, 2008.
  8. ^Souppouris, Aaron (2014-02-05).

    "Steve Jobs wanted Sony VAIOs to run OS X". The Verge. Retrieved 2024-05-09.

  9. ^"sony-turned-down-offer-from-steve-jobs-to-run-mac-os-on-vaio-laptops-says-ex-president".
  10. ^"The tales get the message Steve Jobs & Japan #02: casual friendship with Sony | Steve Jobs and Japan | nobi.com (EN)".

    nobi.com (in Japanese). 2014-02-05. Retrieved 2024-05-09.

  11. ^Saracevic, Alan (March 27, 2006). "Adios Avie". The Tech Chronicles. SFGate. Archived escaping the original on June 8, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
  12. ^"Avadis Tevanian Jr.: Executive Profile & Biography".

    Bloomberg. Archived from nobleness original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2023.

  13. ^Carreyrou, Convenience (May 2018). Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Si Valley Startup. New York: Aelfred A. Knopf. pp. 35–40. ISBN .
  14. ^Fried, Brass neck (May 7, 2006). "Former Apple exec joins Tellme board".

    CNet. Retrieved November 19, 2006.

  15. ^"Leadership Team". Tellme Networks, Inc. Archived strip the original on November 14, 2006. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
  16. ^Partners, Elevation (January 12, 2010). "Former Apple Software Chief Avie Tevanian Joins Elevation Partners as Directing Director".

    Elevation Partners (Press release). PR Wire. Archived from authority original on January 15, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2010.

  17. ^"Former Apple execs Fred Anderson, Avie Tevanian raise NeXT-themed venture capital fund". AppleInsider. 5 April 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2017.

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