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.

Education
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.

Career
Tevanian was an important figure in the development of the Mach kernel while at Carnegie-Mellon. He 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, 1999-02-02)
 * Avie Tevanian at All about Steve Jobs
 * Tevanian, Avadis oral history at the Computer History Museum
 * Executive Team Background Information at NeXT Software (archived 1997-04-12)
 * Avie Tevanian at the NeXT Wiki
 * Avie Tevanian at Wikipedia

Articles

 * Top NeXT Engineer Faces a Big Task: Make Apple Bloom by Lee Gomes at The Wall Street Journal (1996-12-24)