Avie Tevanian
Ideas at the foundations of modern operating systems
Avadis “Avie” Tevanian is an Armenian American software engineer, born in 1961. He studied mathematics at the University of Rochester and earned master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
At Carnegie Mellon, he helped develop the Mach operating-system kernel. Ideas and technologies from that work were subsequently used at NeXT and became part of the foundations of Apple’s operating systems.
Tevanian joined Apple as senior vice president of software engineering in 1997 and became chief software technology officer in 2003. His contribution is associated with the creation of Mac OS X and the transformation of research ideas into widely used software systems.