Gernot Heiser

[PHOTO: Gernot Heiser]   John Lions Chair of Operating Systems
School of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia

Leader of ERTOS, the
Embedded Operating Systems Research Group
at NICTA

Founder and Director of Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), the global leader virtualisation technology for embedded systems

Director of Redd Forests, a company that is demonstrating that it makes economic sense to use save the world's forests by using them as carbon sinks. 		Twitter

Photo of award ceremony My primary occupation is to lead the ERTOS team at NICTA in its endeavour to bring about a qualitative change in embedded systems practice, making trusted systems truly trustworthy. In my spare time I consult for OK Labs, the company I co-founded and where I served as Chief Technology Officer from 2006–2010.

I also teach Advanced Operating Systems to a group of excellent students with a tendency to masochism. The course has, over the years, produced many Heroes of Operating Systems and has been copied at a number of universities.

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red ball What I did in my last holidays: Munda Biddi Trail (Dec 2009 and Dec 2006), skiing to the South Pole (January 2009), Kimberleys (July 2006), Jatbula Trail (New Year 2006), Larapinta Trail (Sep 2004).
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Macnamara Fallacy:

The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is ok as far as it goes.
The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading.
The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness.
The forth step is to say that what can't be measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
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