H. Peter Anvin


Hans Peter Anvin, also known as hpa, is a Swedish-American computer programmer who has contributed to free and open-source software projects. Anvin is the originator of SYSLINUX, Linux [Assigned Names and Numbers Authority], and various Linux kernel features.

History

Peter Anvin grew up in Västerås, Sweden. He moved to the United States in 1988, as a teenager, when his father moved to Chicago.
Anvin was previously maintainer of the linux.* Usenet newsgroup hierarchy and the Linux kernel archives at kernel.org, wrote the original Swap Space How-to, and the "Linux/I386 Boot Protocol"
Peter Anvin graduated in 1994 from Northwestern University, where he also was president of the Northwestern Amateur Radio Society ; his amateur radio call sign is AD6QZ. According to his personal web site, he is a believer in the Baháʼí Faith.
In addition to his regular employment at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, Anvin was a long-time co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree, chief maintainer of the Netwide Assembler and SYSLINUX projects.
Previous employers include Transmeta, where he performed as architect and technical director; Orion Multisystems, working on CPU architecture and code morphing software; and rPath.

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