Eric Philip Traut (born July 24, 1971) is an American software engineer and emulation pioneer who worked at Apple Computer.
Education[]
Traut received a B.S. with honors in computer systems engineering from Stanford University in 1993.[1][2]
Career[]
Apple Computer[]
In April 1993, Traut joined Apple Computer as a software engineer.[1] He updated Gary Davidian's original Mac 68k emulator to allow PowerPC-based Macintosh computers to run code originally written for 68k processors more quickly after a process of just-in-time compilation.[3] His work on the project led to a patent on a form of dynamic recompilation.[4]
After Apple Computer[]
In October 1995, Traut joined Connectix, where he became the VP of engineering.[1] He developed successful commercial emulators such as Virtual PC and Virtual Game Station. Traut became the Chief Technical Officer of Connectix in 2001.[3]
In February 2003, Connectix was acquired by Microsoft, where Traut formed the Core Virtual Machine Team. As a distinguished engineer, he oversaw the development of virtualization technologies used in Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC.[3] Eric left Microsoft in September 2012 to co-found Ten Four Software with Brent Traut. Eric rejoined Microsoft in May 2014 and became a Technical Fellow leading the business AI team.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eric Traut, LinkedIn. Accessed 2020-12-28.
- ↑ Past Tech Talks, The Stanford Association for Computing Machinery. 2011-10-28.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eric Traut: Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft. 2006-10-03. Updated 2007-09-14. Archived 2008-01-05.
- ↑ Method for emulating guest instructions on a host computer through dynamic recompilation of host instructions by Eric P. Traut, Espacenet patent search. 1998-08-04.
External links[]
- Eric Traut at Microsoft (archived 2011-10-01)
- Eric Traut at GitHub
- Eric P. Traut at Justia Patents
- Eric P. Traut at ResearchGate
- Eric Traut at Wikipedia
Seminars and podcasts[]
- The future of virtualization at Microsoft by Eric Traut at the University of Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (2006-04-03)
- Eric Traut talks (and demos) Windows 7 and MinWin by Long Zheng at IStartedSomething (2007-10-19)
- Microsoft Virtualization Podcast with: Eric Traut, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer at DABCC (2015-12-29)