__NOTOC__ Garth Alan Gibson is a computer scientist from Carnegie Mellon University. Gibson's developed the

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taxonomy of redundant data storage systems, along with David A. Patterson and

Randy Katz Randy Howard Katz is a distinguished professor at University of California, Berkeley of the electrical engineering and computer science department. Biography Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. He was first exposed to computers in Can ...

. Born in

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, he holds a

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and an MSc in computer science from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, and a B.Math in computer science from the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...

. He was involved in informed prefetch computing and network-attached secure disks, a precursor to the SCSI

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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

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hardware and software company. Gibson was the first president and chief executive officer of the Vector Institute. In 2005 he became the 11th awardee of the J.W. Graham Medal, named in honor of

Wes Graham James Wesley Graham, OC was a Canadian professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo. Graham was born on January 17, 1932, in Copper Cliff, Ontario. His interest in computing developed while studying math and physics at the U ...

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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* Garth Gibson
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- Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
Panasas

Parallel Data Lab
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