Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. David J. Brown is an American computer scientist. He was one of a small group that helped to develop the system at Stanford that later resulted in Sun Microsystems, and later was a founder Silicon Graphics in 1982. Brown received his primary and secondary school education in New York, and then studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Electrical Engineering where he received a B.S.E. in 1979 and an M.S.E under the tutelage of Ruzena Bajcsy in 1980. In 1984, Brown was introduced to David Wheeler, who invited him to join the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory as a doctoral candidate.