Alan Cox

Name: Alan Cox

Born: July 22, 1968, in Solihull, England

Computer-related contributions

• British computer programmer who became heavily involved in developing the 2.2 branch of the Linux kernel.
• Engineer at Red Hat (1999-2009).
• Been involved in the GNOME and X.Org projects, and was the main developer of AberMUD.

Honors and awards

• Recipient of the FSF (Free Software Foundation) 2003 Award for the Advancement of Free Software at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels.
• Lifetime achievement award at the LinuxWorld awards in London.