Matt Welsh

Computer Science professor and long-time Linux hacker

Areas of Expertise:

  • Operating systems
  • distributed systems
  • networks
  • Linux
  • sensor networks
  • speaking
Matt Welsh is an associate professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. His research interests span many aspects of complex systems, including operating systems design, distributed systems, networking, and parallel computing. Matt is a long-time Linux advocate and developer, a role in which he has fielded questions from thousands of Linux users over the years. He was the original coordinator of the Linux Documentation Project and author of the original Linux Installation and Getting Started guide. He completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and his B.S. at Cornell University.

For more details, you can visit his personal web page and blog.

Running Linux Running Linux
by Matthias Kalle Dalheimer , Matt Welsh
Fifth Edition December 2005
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99

Running Linux Running Linux
by Matt Welsh , Matthias Kalle Dalheimer , Terry Dawson , Lar Kaufman
Fourth Edition December 2002
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Running Linux Running Linux
by Matt Welsh , Matthias Kalle Dalheimer , Lar Kaufman
Third Edition August 1999
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Running Linux Running Linux
by Matt Welsh , Lar Kaufman
Second Edition August 1996
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Running Linux Running Linux
by Matt Welsh , Lar Kaufman
February 1995
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Matt blogs at:
http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/

My love affair with code reviews

February 08 2012

One of the most life-altering events in my move from academia to industry was the discovery of code reviews. This is pretty standard fare for developers in the "real world", but I have never heard of an academic research group using them, and had never done code reviews myself before… read more

Making universities obsolete

January 24 2012

Sebastian Thrun recently announced that he was leaving Stanford to found a free, online university called Udacity. This is based on his experiences teaching the famous intro to AI class, for free, to 160,000 students online.Is this just Education for the Twitter Generation? Or truly a revolution in how we deliver… read more

Software is not science

November 02 2011

Very often I see conference paper submissions and PhD thesis proposals that center entirely on a piece of software that someone has built. The abstract often starts out something like this:We have designed METAFOO, a sensor network simulator that accurately captures hardware level power consumption. METAFOO has a modular design… read more
Matt Welsh