Marshall Kirk McKusick
American computer scientist (born 1954) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004, and still serves on the board. He is on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine.[1] He is known to friends and colleagues as "Kirk".
Marshall Kirk McKusick | |
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Born | January 19, 1954 (1954-01-19) (age 70) Wilmington, Delaware, United States |
Education | University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | BSD, FreeBSD, UFS, soft updates, BSD Daemon |
Spouse | Eric Allman |
McKusick received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and two M.S. degrees (in 1979 and 1980 respectively) and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.[2]
McKusick lives in California with Eric Allman, his partner since graduate school, whom he married in October, 2013.[3][4]