Back Avie Tevanian German آوی توانیان Persian Avadis Tevanian French Ավետիս Թևանյան Armenian Avie Tevanian Italian アビー・テバニアン Japanese 에이비 티베이니언 Korean Avadis Tevanian Malagasy Avie Tevanian Portuguese Теванян, Аветис Russian
Avadis Tevanian | |
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| Born | Avadis Tevanian 1961 (age 62–63) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | PhD, MS, BA |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University University of Rochester |
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| Known for | Computer scientist and coarchitect of Mach kernel, NeXTSTEP, and macOS |
Avadis "Avie" Tevanian (born 1961) is an American software engineer. At Carnegie Mellon University, he was a principal designer and engineer of the Mach operating system (also known as the Mach Kernel). He used that work at NeXT Inc. as the foundation of the NeXTSTEP operating system. He was senior vice president of software engineering at Apple from 1997 to 2003, and then chief software technology officer from 2003 to 2006.[1] There, he redesigned NeXTSTEP to become macOS. Apple's macOS and iOS both incorporate the Mach Kernel, and iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS are all derived from iOS. He was a longtime friend of Steve Jobs.[2]
- ^ "Avie Tevanian Named Chief Software Technology Officer of Apple". University of Rochester. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
- ^ "Was Steve Jobs' genius also a fatal flaw?". BBC News. 8 March 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2016.