Garth Gibson

Garth Alan Gibson is a computer scientist from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gibson developed the RAID taxonomy of redundant data storage systems, along with David A. Patterson and Randy Katz.

He was involved in informed prefetch computing and network-attached secure disks, a precursor to the SCSI object storage device command set.

Gibson was the initial director of the Parallel Data Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, and founder and chief technology officer for Panasas, a computer data storage hardware and software company.

Graham Medal, named in honor of Wes Graham an early influential professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, and annually awarded to an alumnus of the university's Faculty of Mathematics.