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Garth Alan Gibson
is a
computer scientist
from
Carnegie Mellon University
. Gibson's developed the
RAID
taxonomy of redundant
data storage
systems, along with
David A. Patterson
and
Randy Katz
.
Born in
Aurora, Ontario
, he holds a
Ph.D.
and an
MSc
in computer science from the
University of California, Berkeley
, and a
B.Math
in computer science from the
University of Waterloo
. He was involved in informed prefetch computing and network-attached secure disks, a precursor to the
SCSI
object storage device
command set. Gibson was the initial director of the Parallel Data Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, and founder and chief technology officer for
Panasas
, a
computer data storage
hardware and software company. Gibson was the first president and chief executive officer of the
Vector Institute
.
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In 2005 he became the 11th awardee of the
J.W. Graham Medal
, named in honor of
Wes Graham
an early influential professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, and annually awarded to an alumnus of the university's Faculty of Mathematics.
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