Marshall Kirk McKusick

Marshall Kirk McKusick
McKusick in 2011
BornJanuary 19, 1954 (1954-01-19) (age 70)
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
EducationCornell University (BS)
University of California, Berkeley (MS, MS, PhD)
Known forBSD, FreeBSD, UFS, soft updates, BSD Daemon
SpouseEric Allman

Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is an American computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He served on the board of the USENIX Association from 1986 to 1992 and again from 2000 to 2006,[1] including terms as president from 1990 to 1992 and 2000 to 2002.[2] He served on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine from 2002 to 2019.[3] He served on the board of the FreeBSD Foundation from 2012 to 2022.[4] He is known to friends and colleagues as "Kirk".

McKusick lives in California with Eric Allman, his partner since graduate school, whom he married in October, 2013.[5][6]

  1. ^ "USENIX Board". Archived from the original on February 7, 2005.
  2. ^ "USENIX Board". Archived from the original on June 3, 2004.
  3. ^ "ACM Queue Editorial Board". Archived from the original on April 27, 2019.
  4. ^ "Board of Directors: FreeBSD Foundation". Archived from the original on April 14, 2022.
  5. ^ Friess, Steve (1998-03-03). "What a connection. One helped develop E-mail, and the other fine-tuned the PC. Americans' lives are easier because these guys click". The Advocate. Archived from the original on 2004-12-16. Retrieved 2013-01-16. Alt URL
  6. ^ "Kirk McKusick's Family and Friends". mckusick.com. Marshall Kirk McKusick. Retrieved 14 March 2015.