彼得·温伯格

彼得·杰·温伯格（英语：Peter Jay Weinberger，1942年8月6日—），美国著名计算机科学家，曾服务于贝尔实验室，现在google工作。他是AWK的共同作者之一。

生平

1964年，于斯沃斯莫尔学院取得硕士学位。1969年，于柏克莱加州大学取得数学博士学位，主要研究数论。在毕业后，他曾至密歇根大学进行博士后研究，钻研解析数论，之后他进入贝尔实验室工作。

在贝尔实验室期间，他参与了AWK的开发。

他曾任文艺复兴科技公司（Renaissance Technologies）的首席技术长，后加入google。

Peter Jay Weinberger (born August 6, 1942) is a computer scientist best known for his early work at Bell Labs. He now works at Google.

Weinberger was an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, graduating in 1964. He received his PhD in mathematics with a specialization in number theory in 1969 from the University of California, Berkeley under Derrick Henry Lehmer for his thesis Proof of a Conjecture of Gauss on Class Number Two. After holding a position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he continued his work in analytic number theory, he moved to AT&T Bell Labs.

At Bell Labs, Weinberger contributed to the design of the AWK programming language (he is the W in AWK), and the Fortran compiler f77. A detailed explanation of his contributions to AWK and other Unix tools is found in an interview transcript at Princeton University.

Another interview sheds some light on his work at Google.

When Peter Weinberger was promoted to head of computer science research at Bell Labs, his picture was merged with the AT&T "death star" logo of the mid-80s, creating the PJW Face image that has appeared in innumerable locations, including T-shirts, coffee mugs, CDs, and at least one water tower. The sole remaining PJW Face at Bell Labs is somewhat in disarray, but there are plans afoot to repair it.

Prior to joining Google, Weinberger was the chief technology officer at Renaissance Technologies. Weinberger has been a member of the JASON defense advisory group since 1990. He has an Erdős number of 2.

Writings

Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger (1988). The AWK Programming Language. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-07981-4.