Jaishankar Menon | |
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Born | August 9, 1956 |
Education | Indian Institute of Technology (B.S.) Ohio State University (Ph.D.) |
Occupation(s) | Computer scientist and researcher |
Jaishankar Menon (born August 9, 1956) is an Indian-American computer scientist and researcher.
Menon joined IBM's research team in San Jose, California, in 1982, where he developed RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology.
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