Urs HolzleUrs H�lzle served as Google's first vice president of engineering and leads the development of Google's technical infrastructure. His current responsibilities include the design and operation of the servers, networks, datacenters, and software infrasructure that power Google. He is also renowned for both his red socks and his free-range Leonberger, Yoshka (Google's original top dog). Urs grew up in Switzerland and received a master's degree in computer science from ETH Z�rich and, as a Fulbright scholar, a Ph.D. from Stanford. While at Stanford (and then a start-up later acquired by Sun Microsystems) he invented fundamental techniques used in most of today's leading Java compilers. Before joining Google he was a professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and serves on the board of the US World Wildlife Fund as well as the Open Networking Foundation. Read More Read Less