John Mashey

Who is John Mashey?

John

Mashey is a consultant for venture capitalists and technology

companies. He is "an ancient UNIX person," having started work on it at

Bell Labs in 1973, and continuing to work there for 10 years. He moved

to Silicon Valley in 1983 to join Convergent Technologies, ending as

director of software. Mashey joined MIPS Computer Systems in early

1985, managing operating systems development, and helping design the

MIPS RISC architecture, as well as specific CPUs, systems and software.

He continued similar work at SGI (1992 – 2000) most recently

contributing to the design of SGI's NUMAflex modular computer

architecture, ending as VP and Chief Scientist.

Mashey was one of the founders of the SPEC benchmarking group, was an

ACM National Lecturer for four years, has been guest editor for IEEE

Micro, and one of the long-time organizers of the Hot Chips

conferences. Additionally, he has chaired technical conferences on

operating systems and CPU chips, and has given more than 500 public

talks on software engineering, RISC design, performance benchmarking

and supercomputing. He is a Trustee of the Computer History Museum, and

a Technical Advisory Board member for companies including Dust

Networks, Cradle Technologies, Open Country, and Transitive Corporation.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University.