Bruce Jay Nelson

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Bruce Jay Nelson

Bruce Jay Nelson is affiliated with the following schools: Harvey Mudd College, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University

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Bruce Jay Nelson

Computer Science

#1794

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#1862

Historical Rank

#842

USA Rank

Database

#7603

World Rank

#7882

Historical Rank

#900

USA Rank

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Bruce Jay Nelson's Degrees

PhD Computer Science Stanford University
Masters Computer Science Stanford University
Bachelors Computer Science Stanford University

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Why Is Bruce Jay Nelson Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Bruce Jay Nelson was an American computer scientist best known as the inventor of the remote procedure call concept for computer network communications. Bruce Nelson graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1974, and went on to earn a master's in computer science from Stanford University in 1976, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. While pursuing his Ph.D., he worked at Xerox PARC where he developed the concept of Remote Procedure Call . He and his collaborator Andrew Birrell were awarded the 1994 Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award for the work on RPC. In 1996 he joined Cisco Systems as Chief Science Officer.

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Bruce Jay Nelson's Published Works

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