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, the Strongtalk system, and Object Oberon.Rob Pike, Sean Dorward, Robert Griesemer, Sean Quinlan. Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall
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