Dominic B. Giampaolo is a software developer who currently works for Apple Computer, where he is part of the Mac OS X file system and Spotlight groups. A software developer is an entity, either a company or individual, that creates software. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Mac OS X is the latest version of the Mac OS, the operating system software for Macintosh computers. ... In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ... Spotlight is a fast, as-you-type, system-wide desktop search feature found in Mac OS X v10. ...

He started studying political science at American University in Washington, DC, but changed to computer science after one semester. After completing his bachelor's degree, he did a master's degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. American University is a fully accredited and internationally known private coeducational university located at Ward Circle, straddling the Spring Valley and American University Park areas of Northwest Washington, DC. It currently has roughly 5,000 undergraduate students, and approximately the same number of graduate students. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... For other Worcester Colleges, see Worcester College (disambiguation). ...

After graduating, he travelled to the west coast to work for Silicon Graphics in their Advanced Systems Division. There he worked on the Reality Engine and Infinite Reality graphics systems. While working for Silicon Graphics, he located and fixed a bug in the Flame compositing system that was delaying post-production of the Speed motion picture. Silicon Graphics, Inc. ... Movie poster for Speed Speed is a 1994 film directed by Jan de Bont, starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock (her breakout role), and Dennis Hopper. ...

At Be Incorporated he became famous for the development of the Be File System with Cyril Meurillon. The Be File System included a number of advances compared to other personal computer filesystems in use at the time. An image of him sitting atop of the Be headquarters, his legs dangling over the edge, adorned the BeOS R4 beta 1 CD-ROM with the caption "Don't slip!". Be, Incorporated was the company that developed the BeOS operating system and BeBox computer. ... The Be File System (BFS, BeFS) is the native file system for the BeOS operating system. ... BeOS was an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Incorporated in 1991. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...

Between Be and Apple he worked briefly at Google and QNX. While at QNX he discovered a bug in the Instruction Fetch Unit of Intel Pentium II and Pentium III processors. Google, Inc. ... QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix) is a commercial POSIX-compliant Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) (founded 1968) is a US-based multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Pentium II – front view The Pentium II is an x86 architecture microprocessor by Intel, introduced on May 7, 1997. ... Pentium III logo The Pentium III is an x86 (more precisely, an i686) architecture microprocessor by Intel, introduced on February 26, 1999. ...

Bibliography

• Giampaolo, Dominic (1999). Practical File System Design with the Be File System. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1558604979.

External links

• Dominic Giampaolo's Home Page

Interviews

• Anno Dominic: Dominic Giampaolo - interview by Tom Georgoulias for frontwheeldrive.com (April 18, 2000)
• Windows on a database – sliced and diced by BeOS vets - Dominic & Benoit Schillings interviewed by Andrew Orlowski for TheRegister.co.uk (March 29, 2002)
• "Don't Moon the Ogre" - interview with BeDope.com