Robert P. Goldberg (December 4, 1944 – February 25, 1994) was an American computer scientist, known for his research on operating systems and virtualization.
Goldberg was a member of the Honeywell Information Systems Technical Office in Waltham, MA and also a lecturer on Computer Science at Harvard University.
The company set out to develop products that provided centralized capacity management and planning capabilities for all major computing platforms.
In addition, BGS created products that managed and evaluated computing systems such as UNIX, MVS, VM, OpenVMS, and the AS/400 as well as OS/2 and Windows NT.
This software, which was based on queuing theory, was devised by the three founders and promoted by the company as being the de facto standard for capacity management and planning in heterogeneous distributed environments.