Mark Lucovsky - Definition

Mark Lucovsky is a software developer who works for Microsoft. In particular he is known for being a part of the team that designed and built the Windows NT operating system.

Before working at Microsoft, Mark worked at Digital. There he came to the attention of Dave Cutler and Lou Perazzoli, so when they moved to Microsoft to work on their next generation operating system, they asked him to join them.

Amongst his contributions to Windows NT, was an eighty-page manual he wrote with Steve Wood defining the Windows APIs that should be available to software developers working on the Windows NT platform. He also managed check-ins to the Windows NT source code, tracking each check-in and discussing it with the developer before allowing it to be committed.

Reference

• Zachary, G. Pascal. (1994). ShowStopper!. The Free Press. ISBN 0029356717.

External links

• Windows, A Software Engineering Odyssey (http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invitedtalks/lucovsky_html/) - a talk Mark gave at the 4th Usenix Windows Systems Symposium (August, 2000)
• The Architects: First, Get the Spec Right (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/news/fromms/kanoarchitect.asp) - interview by Nadina Kano for microsoft.com