Background
Doctor Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City, in about 1945.
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Education
In his Doctor of Philosophy thesis "Architectural Principles for Virtual Computer Systems" he also invented the classification for Hypervisors which is now widely adopted in the area of virtual computer systems and computer science in general. He received the Bachelor of Surgery degree in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degress in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, in 1969 and 1973, respectively. In his Doctor of Philosophy thesis "Architectural Principles for Virtual Computer Systems" published 1974 he invented the classification for Hypervisors which is now widely adopted in the area of virtual computer systems and computer science in general.
Career
With Gerald J. Popek he proposed the Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements, a set of conditions necessary for a computer architecture to support system virtualization. In 1974 with Gerald J. Popek he proposed the Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements, a set of conditions necessary for a computer architecture to support system virtualization. From 1971 to 1972, Doctor Goldberg served as a consultant to the Director of Engineering at Honeywell"s Boston Computer Operations.
His teaching experience included lectoreships at Brandeis University and Northeastern University.
He was the organizer of the Virtual Machine session at the 1973 National Computer Conference, was the Program Chairman and Proceedings Editor for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGARCH-SIGOPS Workshop on Virtual Computer Systems, 1973 and has written and lectured extensively on many different aspects of virtual machine systems His research interest included computer architectures, operating system design and evaluation, and data management systems at that time.
1978 Doctor Goldberg filed a patent under the name "Hardware virtualizer for supporting recursive virtual computer systems on a host computer system" (Patent Nr 4253145) which was accepted 1981 and is held by Honeywell Information Systems Incorporated.
In 1975 Doctor Goldberg together with Doctor Jeffrey Buzen and Doctor Harold Schwenk (whose last names are represented in the initials of the company) founded a company called "Bachelor of General Studies Systems, Incorporated." in the basement of Buzen"s Lexington, Massachusetts home. Over the next fifteen years, it moved five times, but always within Waltham, Massachusetts
The company set out to develop products that provided centralized capacity management and planning capabilities for all major computing platforms.
In addition Bachelor of General Studies created products that managed and evaluated computing systems such as Uniplex Information and Computing System, MVS, VM, OpenVMS, and the AS/400 as well as Operating system/2 and Windows Northwest Territories. By the early 1980s the company could claim over 30,000 installations worldwide with its BEST/1 product.
This software, which was based on queuing theory, was devised by the three founders and promoted by the company as being the de facto standard for capacity management and planning in heterogeneous distributed environments. (1998 Bachelor of General Studies Systems was acquired by Business Service Management Software, Incorporated The transaction was valued at approximately $285 million)
Death and afterward
Goldberg died on 25 February 1994 in Boston, at the age of 49, after suffering from cancer.
Membership
From 1966 to 1972 he was a member of the research staff at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, first at Lincoln Laboratories and then at Project MAC. Doctor Goldberg was a member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Doctor Goldberg was a member of the Honeywell Information Systems Technical Office in Waltham,Master of Arts and also a Lecturer on Computer Science at Harvard University.
