Eric A. Brewer
Director, Intel Research Berkeley
Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Eric Brewer became the Director of Intel Research Berkeley in June 2005, taking a leave of absence from his position as Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley to assume leadership of the lab.

Dr. Brewer's research focuses on all aspects of Internet-based systems, including technology, strategy, and government. As a researcher, he has led projects on scalable servers, search engines, network infrastructure, sensor networks, and security. His current focus is (high) technology for developing regions, with projects in India, Cambodia, Mexico, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (so far), and including communications, health, education, and e-government.

In 1996, Dr. Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation with a UC Berkeley graduate student based on their research prototype, and helped lead it onto the Nasdaq 100 before it was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003. In 2000, he founded the Federal Search Foundation, a 501-3(c) organization focused on improving consumer access to government information. Working with President Clinton, Dr. Brewer helped to create FirstGov.gov, the official portal of the Federal government, which launched in September 2000.

Brewer received an MS and PhD in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley. He was named by the World Economic Forum as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow," by The Industry Standard as the "most influential person on the architecture of the Internet", by InfoWorld as a top ten innovator, by Technology Review as one of the 100 most influential people for the 21st century (the "TR100"), and by Forbes as one of the magazine's 12 "e-mavericks," for which he appeared on the cover.