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'{{short description|Swiss software architect and businessman|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Edouard "Ed" Bugnion''' (born 1970) is a Swiss software architect and businessman. {{Infobox person | name = Edouard Bugnion | birth_date = 1970 | birth_place = [[Neuchâtel]] | nationality = Swiss | other_names = Ed | known_for = [[SimOS]], [[VMware]] | alma_mater = [[ETH Zurich]],<br />[[Stanford University]] }} Bugnion was raised in [[Neuchâtel]], [[Switzerland]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edouard Bugnion |work=Personal student web page |publisher=Stanford University |url=http://www-flash.stanford.edu/~bugnion/ |accessdate=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006150254/http://www-flash.stanford.edu/~bugnion/ |archivedate=October 6, 2009 }}</ref> Bugnion graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from [[ETH Zurich]] in 1994 and a master's degree from [[Stanford University]] in 1996. He was one of the five founders of [[VMware]] in 1998 (with his advisor [[Mendel Rosenblum]]) and was the chief architect until 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |title= VMware Leadership |url= http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership/ |url-status= live |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20041229221751/http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership.html |archivedate=December 29, 2004 |accessdate= November 13, 2011 }}</ref> He had been a [[Ph.D.]] candidate in [[computer science]] at Stanford University prior to co-founding VMware. While he was chief architect, VMware developed the secure desktop initiative also known as [[NetTop]] for the US [[National Security Agency]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=NSA hones secure desktop to run multiple OSes |work=Government Computer News |date=September 17, 2003 |url=http://www.gcn.com/print/22_28/23568-1.html |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130124011259/http://www.gcn.com/print/22_28/23568-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 24, 2013 |accessdate=November 13, 2011 }}</ref> His primary research interests are in [[operating system]]s and [[computer architecture]]s, and he was a key member of the [[SimOS]] and Disco [[virtual machine]] research teams. After VMware, Bugnion was a founder of Nuova Systems which was funded by [[Cisco Systems]], and acquired by them in April 2008.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Remaining Interest in Nuova Systems |work= News release |publisher= Cisco systems |date= April 8, 2008 |url= http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/prod_040808b.html |accessdate= November 13, 2011 }}</ref> Bugnion joined Cisco as vice president and [[chief technology officer]] of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit.<ref>{{Cite news |title=The Evolution of Data Center 3.0 |work=News release |publisher=Cisco systems |date=March 16, 2009 |author=Charles Waltner |url=http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/hd_031609.html |accessdate=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118033200/http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/hd_031609.html |archivedate=January 18, 2012 }}</ref> He promoted Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, and appeared in advertisements.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Cisco Nexus 5000 Enables Virtualization Optimization |author= Dante Malagrino interview of Ed Bugnion |date= April 8, 2008|work= Promotional video by Cisco |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFRjWSKPvI |accessdate= November 13, 2011 }}</ref> He resigned from Cisco in 2011 and resumed his PhD program of study at Stanford University, which he graduated from in 2012. He then became faculty member of the School of Computer Science at [[EPFL]], Switzerland, where he is now the Vice President for Information Systems.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Biography at EPFL |url=https://people.epfl.ch/edouard.bugnion?lang=en |accessdate= February 25, 2019}}</ref> Bugnion co-authored papers on operating systems and [[platform virtualization]] such as “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors,” in 1997.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Edouard Bugnion |author2=Scott Devine |author3=Kinshuk Govil |author4=[[Mendel Rosenblum]] |title=Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors |journal=ACM Transactions on Computer Systems |volume=15 |pages=412–447 |number=4 |date=November 1997 |doi=10.1145/265924.265930 |url=http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/disco.pdf |accessdate=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813061150/http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/disco.pdf |archivedate=August 13, 2012 |citeseerx=10.1.1.157.8827 }}</ref><!-- seems nothing academic since 1998? --> Bugnion is also an [[angel investor]] in startup companies such as [[Cumulus Networks]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Cumulus Networks™ Brings The Power Of Linux® To Networking |url=http://cumulusnetworks.com/press_releases/detail/20130619-cumulus-networkstm-brings-the-power-of-linux-to-networking/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627120922/http://cumulusnetworks.com/press_releases/detail/20130619-cumulus-networkstm-brings-the-power-of-linux-to-networking/ |archivedate=2013-06-27 }}</ref> He was elected as an [[ACM Fellow]] in 2017.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2017/december/fellows-2017|title=ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|date=December 11, 2017|accessdate=2017-11-13}}</ref> In 2020, Bugnion took a key role in fighting [[Coronavirus disease 2019|Covid19]] through [[Exposure Notification]], as a principal member of the team behind the concept and the implementation in [[Switzerland]]. He was also a member of the [https://ncs-tf.ch/en/organisation Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force]. {{Authority control}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bugnion, Edouard}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1970 births]] [[Category:People from Neuchâtel]] [[Category:Chief technology officers]] [[Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery]] {{Compu-bio-stub}}'