Avie Tevanian

Avadis "Avie" Tevanian, Jr. (born 1961) was the Chief Software Technology Officer at Apple Computer. He was also a member of the board of embedded software tools company Green Hills Software.

Avie Tevanian received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University. Tevanian was an important figure in the development of the Mach kernel while at Carnegie-Mellon; he later worked for Steve Jobs at NeXT and later at Apple, where he was the primary figure in the development of Mac OS X.

External link

 * Avadis “Avie” Tevanian, Jr., Ph.D at Apple (archived 2006-04-22)
 * Tevanian, Avadis oral history at the Computer History Museum
 * Avie Tevanian at Wikipedia