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Robert Griesemer (born 1964) is a Swiss computer scientist. He is best known for his work on the Go programming language. Prior to Go, he worked on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, the Sawzall language, the Java HotSpot virtual machine, and the Strongtalk system.
Background
Robert Griesemer studied at the ETH Zurich, where he did his doctorate under the supervision of Hanspeter Mössenböck and Niklaus Wirth on the subject of a programming language for vector computers. He works at Google.
Papers
Robert Griesemer, Srdjan Mitrovic, A Compiler for the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, The School of Niklaus Wirth (2000), pp. 133–152
Tushar Deepak Chandra, Robert Griesemer, Joshua Redstone, Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective (2006 Invited Talk), Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, ACM press (2007)
Patents
Interpreting functions utilizing a hybrid of virtual and native machine instructions
Method and apparatus for dynamically optimizing byte-coded programs
Apparatus and method for uniformly performing comparison operations on long word operands
See also
Rob Pike
Ken Thompson
Brian Kernighan
References
External links
Video: Google I/O 2012 - Meet the Go Team
Video: GopherCon 2015: Robert Griesemer - The Evolution of Go