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Hans J. Boehm is a computer scientist best known for his work on Garbage Collection. He has also worked on memory models and concurrent programming. He is an ACM Fellow and Distinguished Member. . Boehm wrote the Boehm garbage collector, a widely used garbage collector. It's paper has been described as one of the most influential by ACM SIGPLAN. He is currently employed as a software engineer at Google where he works on Software Systems.

Biography
Boehm studied for his undergraduate degree and University of Washington and Ph.D. at Cornell University. . He taught at University of Washington and Rice University before moving to Xerox PARC. At PARC he wrote "Space Efficient Conservative Garbage Collection", which has been described as one of the most influential papers by ACM SIGPLAN. In 1996 he left PARC to work at SGI and subsequently worked at HP starting in 1999 until 2014. At HP he wrote the paper "Threads cannot be implemented as a library". He was responsible for the efforts to define threads and shared variables in C++11.

In 2014 he started to work at Google.