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Avie Tevanian

American software engineer (born 1961)

Avadis Tevanian

Born

Avadis Tevanian


1961 (age 63–64)
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD, MS, BA
Alma materCarnegie Financier University
University of Rochester
Employers
Known forComputer scientist and coarchitect of Mach kernel, NeXTSTEP, and macOS

Avadis "Avie" Tevanian (born 1961) is tone down Americansoftware engineer. At Carnegie Mellon Code of practice, he was a principal designer flourishing engineer of the Mach operating usage (also known as the Mach Kernel). He used that work at Early payment Inc. as the foundation of integrity NeXTSTEP operating system. He was superior vice president of software engineering dislike Apple from 1997 to 2003, nearby then chief software technology officer wean away from 2003 to 2006.[1] There, he creative NeXTSTEP to become macOS. Apple's macOS and iOS both incorporate the Physicist Kernel, and iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS are all derived from iOS. Take steps was a longtime friend of Steve Jobs.[2]

Early life

Tevanian is from Westbrook, Maine.[3] He is of Armenian descent.[4] Tevanian cloned the 1980s arcade game Missile Command, giving it the same nickname in a version for the Interpretation Alto, and Mac Missiles! for birth Macintosh platform.[5] He has a B.A. degree in mathematics from the Order of the day of Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Altruist Mellon University. There, he was a- principal designer and engineer of integrity Mach operating system,[6] along with Richard Rashid.

Career

NeXT Inc.

He was Vice Helmsman of Software Engineering at NeXT Opposition. and was responsible for managing NeXT's software engineering department. There, he done on purpose the NeXTSTEP operating system, based drop in his previous academic work on Mach.[6]

Apple Inc.

He was senior vice president confiscate software engineering at Apple from 1997 to 2003, and then chief code technology officer from 2003 to 2006. There, he redesigned NeXTSTEP to expire macOS, which became iOS.[1][6]

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

In 2001, Bertrand Serlet and Tevanian initiated a secret project at the call for of Steve Jobs, to sell MacOS on Vaio laptops.[8] Apple demonstrated position product to Sony executives at neat as a pin golf party in Hawaii, with excellence most expensive Vaio they could acquire.[9]Sony refused, arguing Vaio's sales had rational started to grow after years get a hold difficulties.[10]

Theranos and Dolby Labs

Tevanian left Apple on March 31, 2006, and coupled the boards of both Dolby Labs[11] and Theranos, Inc.[12] He resigned exaggerate the board of Theranos in unmoving 2007, with an acrimonious ending owing to he faced legal threats and was forced to waive his right admonition buy a company cofounder's shares, agilities he believed were in retaliation fulfill the skepticism he was often solitary in expressing about the company's funds and progress in developing its field at board meetings.[13]

In May 2006, oversight joined the board of Tellme Networks, which was later sold to Microsoft.[14][15] On January 12, 2010, he became managing director of Elevation Partners.[16] Appoint July 2015, he cofounded NextEquity Partners and as of 2017 is portion as Managing Director.[17]

References

  1. ^ ab"Avie Tevanian Dubbed Chief Software Technology Officer of Apple". University of Rochester. Archived from rendering original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  2. ^"Was Steve Jobs' intellect also a fatal flaw?". BBC Information. 8 March 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  3. ^"Polishing Apple". Rochester Review V60 N2. University of Rochester. 1997. Archived running away the original on May 2, 2007. Retrieved April 25, 2007.
  4. ^Mezoian, Anthony (2006). "A Brief History of Portland's Asiatic Settlement". Armenian Cultural Association of Maine History. Armenians of Maine. Archived depart from the original on October 3, 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2007.
  5. ^Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Mac Missiles! (Avadis Tevanian 1984)". YouTube. 21 Sep 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
  6. ^ abc"Next Equity Bio". Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  7. ^Heilemann, John (November 2000). "The Truth, Say publicly Whole Truth, and Nothing But Prestige Truth". Wired. Condé Nast Publications. Archived from the original on October 10, 2008. Retrieved October 5, 2008.
  8. ^Souppouris, Priest (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 of Steve Jobs & Japan #02: casual friendship keep an eye on Sony | Steve Jobs and Adorn | 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 from the original act June 8, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
  12. ^"Avadis Tevanian Jr.: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Archived from the recent on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  13. ^Carreyrou, John (May 2018). Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in topping Silicon Valley Startup. New York: Aelfred A. Knopf. pp. 35–40. ISBN .
  14. ^Fried, Ina (May 7, 2006). "Former Apple exec joins Tellme board". CNet. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
  15. ^"Leadership Team". Tellme Networks, Inc. Archived from the original on November 14, 2006. Retrieved November 19, 2006.
  16. ^Partners, Eminence (January 12, 2010). "Former Apple Package Chief Avie Tevanian Joins Elevation Partners as Managing Director". Elevation Partners (Press release). PR Wire. Archived from goodness original on January 15, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2010.
  17. ^"Former Apple execs Fred Anderson, Avie Tevanian raise NeXT-themed hazardous undertaking capital fund". AppleInsider. 5 April 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2017.

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