Rob Pike

Slashdot will be interviewing Rob Pike , one of the co-founders of Unix, and also Plan 9.

He now works for Google. What particularly interesting about this is the Plan 9 was designed to be a totally network aware, microkernel successor to Unix - there is no differentiation between remote objects and local objects, and absolutely everything is represented as a file.

In other words, if you wanted to make 100,000 servers (as Google is rumoured to have) appear as a single , vast supercomputer, you hire Mr Pike.

Which also ties in with the question asked on the
Google aptitude test - "What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?"