Benoit Schillings is a

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, who is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Google leading the early projects at X. He is known for being one of the lead developers of the Be Operating System (BeOS) and is a noted

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. Schillings' association with Be Inc. began in 1990 when, as a developer of software for the

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, he visited the

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and met

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. Gassée, who had just left

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to found Be, asked Schillings to become the second engineer at Be where he would work on the operating system for a new computer called the

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. Schillings accepted the offer and, starting in March 1991, developed a file system (now known as the Old Be File System or OFS) and an associated user-space database application (called Zookeeper) that indexed the metadata in the file system. The file system was fast and efficient, but was later replaced by

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's Be File System. Schillings also developed the graphics system for BeOS (known as the App Server), as well as programming

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such as the Interface Kit and Application Kit that are used by

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s to write software for the operating system. Before joining Trolltech in October 2005, Schillings worked as a "Distinguished Engineer" and CTO at

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where, with Mike Reed, he led a team that developed Version 7 of the Openwave Phone Suite

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applications. Benoit also ran the android and iOS mobile teams at Yahoo from 2013 until 2017.

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Be Engineering Insights: Benaphores
First implementation of futex
Benoit Schillings's page
on telescope images. {{DEFAULTSORT:Schillings, Benoit Be Inc. people Living people Chief technology officers Year of birth missing (living people)

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