Richard Wirt
Vice President
Intel Senior Fellow
General Manager, Software and Solutions Group
INTEL CORPORATION
Richard Wirt is vice president, Intel Senior Fellow and general manager of Intel Corporation’s Software and Solutions Group. The Software and Solutions group is responsible for enabling Intel Architecture products through ISV enabling, solutions enabling, core system software enabling, and providing leading-edge products such as compilers, libraries, and tools that allow customers to get the full performance benefit of Intel architectures.
Wirt received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma and has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics. He joined Intel in 1981 as part of the Intel team that worked with IBM on software for the first IBM PC platform. He has been instrumental in creating and enhancing the value of Intel’s silicon and platforms through innovation in software technology.
Wirt made extensive contributions in the success of multiple generations of Intel processors and spearheaded early efforts to port UNIX to the Intel Architecture, including Intel-based multiprocessor systems. He was first named an Intel Fellow in 1990 and promoted to an Intel Senior Fellow in 2002, the highest rank for technologists in Intel, for his significant contributions in operating systems and compilers and more recently in getting this support across the Intel processors spanning communications and computing. He has one patent pending.
He served in the Peace Corps in the sixties and taught mathematics in the South Pacific Islands. Wirt serves on the Open Source Development Lab board that helps set the Linux roadmap for the industry. He also serves on the Board of Advisors in Computer Science and Engineering for both John Hopkins University and University of Illinois, and is the Intel representative on the Board of Directors for the Enterprise Grid Alliance. Wirt is a frequent speaker in professional society forums such as Linux World, Oracle OpenWorld, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Mesa Workshop, and the Intel Developer Forum.
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