Photo © Gary Wagner

• 1988 BSc Phys/Maths at Sydney Uni
• 1990 BSc(Hons) Physics at ANU
• 1999 PhD in Comp Sci at ANU
• As a way of "avoiding my thesis"
  • wanted to make Sun, DEC, Windows talk
  • wrote software to emulate SMB protocol
  • SMB is Microsoft's file sharing protocol
  • open source'd into SAMBA, now in widespread use
  • enables non-MS machines to act as file-servers for
    MS clients (i.e. Windows machines)
• Fought with Linus Torvalds over Bitkeeper
• Currently IBM Almaden Research Lab