Source Awards, for his work on Samba and rsync. Tridgell (along with Jeremy Allison and Volker Lendecke) has been called a "guru in its traditional Indian meaning" by IT writer, Sam Varghese. On 11 December 2018, Tridgell was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the Australian National University, for authoring Samba, co-inventing rsync; and contributions to free and open source software. On 26 January 2020, Tridgell was awarded the Medal (OAM) of the Order of Australia in the General Division for service to Information Technology. The biographical notes for the award noted his contributions to software development and education including his work on rsync, Samba, ArduPilot, MAVProxy as well as teaching at the Australian National University. References External links Andrew Tridgell's website, Newer Personal Website Andrew Tridgell's "Junk Code" collection Efficient Algorithms for Sorting and Synchronization (PhD thesis) – (406kB PDF) Active Directory in Samba 4 'an old story' FOSS folk who make us proud Patent Defence for Free Software, January 2010 presentation transcript Australian computer programmers Free software programmers IBM employees 1967 births Living people People from the Australian Capital Territory University of Sydney alumni Australian National University alumni Geeknet People educated at Barker College Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia