Michael J. Karels
Michael J. (Mike) Karels is an American Software Engineer and one of the key people in history of BSD UNIX. In 1993, the USENIX Association gave a Lifetime Achievement Award (Flame) to the Computer Systems Research Group at University of California, Berkeley, honoring 180 individuals, including Karels, who contributed to the CSRG's 4.4BSD-Lite release. Later, Mike moved to BSDi (Berkeley Software Design) and designed BSD/OS, which was, for years, the only commercially available BSD style Unix on Intel platform. BSD/OS is a very reliable OS platform designed for Internet services. BSDi software asset was bought by Wind River in April 2001, and Mike joined Wind River as the Principal Technologist for the BSD/OS platform. In 2009, Mike was Sr. Principal Engineer at McAfee. In 2015 he worked for Intel and later for Forcepoint LLC. Bibliography 

 S. Leffler, M. McKusick, M. Karels, J. Quarterman: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, Addison-Wesley, January 1989, . German translation published June 1990, . Japanese translation published June 1991,  (out of print). S. Leffler, M. McKusick: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System Answer Book, Addison-Wesley, April 1991, . Japanese translation published January 1992, 
 M. McKusick, K. Bostic, M. Karels, J. Quarterman: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, April 1996, . French translation published 1997, International Thomson Publishing, Paris, France, . References

External links 
 Mike Karels at Unix Guru Universe's Unix Contributors
 Mike Karels Linkedin Page

American computer programmers
American computer scientists
BSD people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)