Jason Nieh is a professor of

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

and co-director of the Software Systems Laboratory at

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. He was the technical advisor to nine States regarding the Microsoft antitrust settlement and has been an expert witness before the

United States International Trade Commission The United States International Trade Commission (USITC or I.T.C.) is an agency of the United States federal government that advises the legislative and executive branches on matters of trade. It was created by Congress in 1916 as the U.S. Tari ...

. He was Chief Scientist of Desktone, which was purchased by VMware, and currently holds the same position at CertiK. Nieh is most well known for his work on

virtualization In computing, virtualization (abbreviated v12n) is a series of technologies that allows dividing of physical computing resources into a series of virtual machines, operating systems, processes or containers. Virtualization began in the 1960s wit ...

. He was one of the early pioneers of

operating-system-level virtualization OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances, including containers ( LXC, Solaris Containers, AIX WPARs, HP-UX SRP Containers, ...

, introducing key concepts such as process namespaces and file system layers which led to the development of Linux containers and Docker. He was an early proponent of

desktop virtualization Desktop virtualization is a software technology that separates the desktop environment and associated application software from the physical client device that is used to access it. Desktop virtualization can be used in conjunction with applicati ...

, conducting many of the early studies demonstrating the feasibility of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. He developed and influenced many key technologies for Arm virtualization, including the Linux ARM hypervisor, KVM ARM, and Arm architecture features to support virtualization host extensions, nested virtualization, and confidential computing. He was also the first to introduce

virtual machine In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulator, emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve ...

s and

virtual appliance A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor; virtual appliances are a subset of the broader class of software appliances. Installation of a software appliance on a virtual machine and packaging that ...

s to teach hands-on computer science courses such as operating systems, which has now become common practice at universities all over the world.

Recognition

*2024:

AAAS Fellow Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) is an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to distinguished persons who are members of the Association. Fellows are elected ...

"for distinguished contributions to the field of computer systems, particularly for innovations in virtualization technology" *2021:

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

in computer science *2021: Jay Lepreau Award *2019:

ACM Fellow ACM Fellowship is an award and fellowship that recognises outstanding members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The title of ACM Fellow A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals ...

"for contributions to operating systems, virtualization, and computer science education" *2019:

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

"for contributions to virtualization, scheduling, and mobile computing" *2014: Kenneth C. Sevcik Award *2012:

SIGCSE SIGCSE is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computer Science Education (CSE), which provides a forum for educators to discuss issues related to the development, implementation, and/or evaluation of c ...

Best Paper Award Best or The Best may refer to: People * Best (surname), people with the surname Best * Best (footballer, born 1968), retired Portuguese footballer Companies and organizations * Best & Co., an 1879–1971 clothing chain * Best Lock Corporation ...

*2011:

Symposium on Operating Systems Principles In Ancient Greece, the symposium (, ''sympósion'', from συμπίνειν, ''sympínein'', 'to drink together') was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, o ...

*2004: International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

*2004:

Sigma Xi Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society () is an international non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a faculty member and graduate students in 1886 and is one of the oldest ...

Young Investigator Award

References

External links

* Columbia University
Jason Nieh, Department of Computer Science
* Living people 20th-century births American computer scientists Columbia University faculty Fellows of the IEEE 2019 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery MIT School of Engineering alumni Stanford University School of Engineering alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Compu-scientist-stub