Eric Traut

Eric Philip Traut (born July 24, 1971) is an American software engineer and emulation pioneer who worked at Apple Computer.

Education
Traut received a B.S. with honors in computer systems engineering from Stanford University in 1993.

Apple Computer
In April 1993, Traut joined Apple Computer as a software engineer. He updated Gary Davidian's original Mac 68k emulator to allow PowerPC-based Macintosh computers to run code originally written for 68k processors more quickly after a process of. His work on the project led to a on a form of dynamic recompilation.

After Apple Computer
In October 1995, Traut joined Connectix, where he became the VP of engineering. He developed successful commercial emulators such as Virtual PC and Virtual Game Station. Traut became the Chief Technical Officer of Connectix in 2001.

In February 2003, Connectix was acquired by Microsoft, where Traut formed the Core Virtual Machine Team. As a distinguished engineer, he oversaw the development of virtualization technologies used in and Virtual PC. Eric left Microsoft in September 2012 to co-found Ten Four Software with Brent Traut. Eric rejoined Microsoft in May 2014 and became a Technical Fellow leading the business AI team.

Seminars and podcasts

 * The future of virtualization at Microsoft by Eric Traut at the University of Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (2006-04-03)
 * Eric Traut talks (and demos) Windows 7 and MinWin by Long Zheng at IStartedSomething (2007-10-19)
 * Microsoft Virtualization Podcast with: Eric Traut, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer at DABCC (2015-12-29)