Marshall Kirk McKusick | |
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Born | January 19, 1954 Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. | (age 71)
Education | Cornell University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, MS, PhD) |
Known for | BSD, FreeBSD, UFS, soft updates, BSD Daemon |
Spouse | Eric Allman |
Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is an American computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He served on the board of the USENIX Association from 1986 to 1992 and again from 2000 to 2006,[1] including terms as president from 1990 to 1992 and 2000 to 2002.[2] He served on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine from 2002 to 2019.[3] He served on the board of the FreeBSD Foundation from 2012 to 2022.[4] He is known to friends and colleagues as "Kirk".
McKusick lives in California with Eric Allman, his partner since graduate school, whom he married in October, 2013.[5][6]