LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 23 April 2014 – Linus Torvalds, the principal force behind development of the Linux kernel and overseer of open source development for the Linux operating system, has been named the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award.
Torvalds, a native of Helsinki, Finland, began working on the Linux kernel in 1991. An avid computer programmer, he authored many gaming applications in his early years. He did his early work on an Intel 386 CPU, using Minix, an Unix-inspired operating system created by Andrew Tanenbaum for use as a teaching tool. After Torvalds formed a team of volunteers to work on the Linux kernel, V1.0 was released in the spring of 1994.
Torvalds in 1996 joined
Transmeta, a California-based startup that was designing an
energy-saving central processing unit (CPU). He continued to
oversee kernel development for Linux, and in 2003 left Transmeta
to focus exclusively on the Linux kernel as a Fellow at The Linux
Foundation (known at the time as Open Source Development Labs).
Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is
incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.
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