Bradford Nichols

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Bio

Brad Nichols works for HP in cloud computing. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1985 and a Master of Science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 1991. He started his computer career working on very hard hardware (fuel pumps and valves). He worked his way up through the hardware layers into software on projects involving embedded avionics systems at Textron Lycomming and United Technologies Hamilton Standard Division. Brad left these jobs to learn more about AI at WPI, but instead caught the UNIX/Mach/OSF/1 fever, and was introduced to threads programming. After attending WPI, Brad has worked in technical training then in OS and infrastructure management tools with Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq and HP.