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=                            John_Mashey                             =
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                            Introduction
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John R. Mashey (born 1946) is an American computer scientist, director
and entrepreneur. He is a consultant for Techviser, a boutique
consulting firm.


                               Career
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Mashey holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Pennsylvania State
University, where he developed the ASSIST assembler language teaching
software. He worked on the PWB/UNIX operating system at Bell Labs from
1973 to 1983, authoring the PWB shell, also known as the "Mashey
Shell". He then moved to Silicon Valley to join Convergent
Technologies, ending as director of software. He joined MIPS Computer
Systems in early 1985, managing operating systems development, and
helping design the MIPS RISC architecture, as well as specific CPUs,
systems and software. He continued similar work at Silicon Graphics
(1992-2000), contributing to the design of the NUMAflex modular
computer architecture using NUMAlink, ending as VP and chief
scientist.

Mashey was one of the founders of the Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation (SPEC) benchmarking group, was an ACM National Lecturer
for four years, has been guest editor for 'IEEE Micro', and one of the
long-time organizers of the Hot Chips conferences. He chaired
technical conferences on operating systems and CPU chips, and gave
public talks on software engineering, RISC design, performance
benchmarking and supercomputing. He has been credited for being the
first to spread the term and concept of big data in the 1990s. He
became a consultant for venture capitalists and high-tech companies
and a trustee of the Computer History Museum in 2001. In 1997, he
received Pennsylvania State University's first
[https://www.engr.psu.edu/alumni/oea/past-recipients.aspx#cse
Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award for Computer Science and
Engineering]. In 2012, he received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement
Award ("Flame Award") "for his contributions to the UNIX community
since its early days".

He has written articles for the 'Skeptical Inquirer' regarding climate
change denial. In 2010, he published a 250-page critical report on the
Wegman Report. Mashey's report concluded that the Wegman Report
contained plagiarized text. This story was featured in 'USA Today',
and he was interviewed in 'Science' magazine, which stated that he was
"spending his retirement years compiling voluminous critiques of what
he calls the 'real conspiracy' to produce 'climate antiscience'." His
research has investigated the secretive funding of climate contrarian
thinktanks. Mashey blogs at DeSmogBlog, which focuses on global
warming.

Mashey became a scientific and technical consultant for the Committee
for Skeptical Inquiry in 2015.


                           Personal life
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Mashey is married to Angela Hey, a Cambridge University and Waterloo
University graduate with a Ph.D. from Imperial College, London.


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