Matt Welsh (computer scientist)

Welsh is a 1992 graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.^[7]

Welsh received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1996 and Master of Science and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and 2002, respectively.^[8] He spent the 1996–97 academic year at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and at the University of Glasgow.^[6] His thesis was supervised by David Culler and Eric Brewer.^[2]

Welsh has led teams at Google and Apple Inc., and served a professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. In November 2010, five months after being granted tenure,^[9] Welsh announced that he was leaving Harvard.^[10]

Welsh taught the operating systems class at Harvard in which Mark Zuckerberg was a student. Welsh was later portrayed by actor Brian Palermo in the movie The Social Network featuring Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook. Welsh was reportedly paid $200 for his Powerpoint slides used in the movie.^[11][12]

His publications^[1] include:

• Running Linux^[13]
• Linux Installation and Getting Started^[14]
• The End of Programming^[15]