About the Author

Robert Love is an open source programmer, speaker, and author who has been using and contributing to Linux for more than 15 years. Robert is currently senior software engineer at Google, where he was a member of the team that developed the Android mobile platform’s kernel. Prior to Google, he was Chief Architect, Linux Desktop, at Novell. Before Novell, he was a kernel engineer at MontaVista Software and Ximian.

Robert’s kernel projects include the preemptive kernel, the process scheduler, the kernel events layer, inotify, VM enhancements, and several device drivers.

Robert has given numerous talks on and has written multiple articles about the Linux kernel. He is a contributing editor for Linux Journal. His other books include Linux System Programming and Linux in a Nutshell.

Robert received a B.A. degree in mathematics and a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Florida. He lives in Boston.