Gul Agha (computer scientist)
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Gul Agha is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Director of the Open Systems Laboratory. He is known for his work on the Actor model of concurrent computation,[1] and was also Editor-in-Chief of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing Surveys from 1999 to 2007.[2]
Agha received his Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Science from the University of Michigan in 1986, under the supervision of John Holland. However, much of his doctoral research was carried out in Carl Hewitt's Message-Passing Semantics Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[3][4] Agha's dissertation was published by the MIT Press as Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems, a book which, according to the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, has been cited over 200 times.[5]
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Agha became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2002.[6]. He is also a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award, and was an International Lecturer for the ACM from 1992 to 1997.[3]
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[edit] References
- ^ Lee, Edward (September, 2000). "What's Ahead for Embedded Software?". IEEE Computer. “Gul Agha of the University of Illinois describes actors, which extend objects to concurrent computation.”
- ^ Agha, Gul (January 2008). "Computing in Pervasive Cyberspace". Communications of the ACM 51 (1).
- ^ a b Gul Agha. Faculty Directory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
- ^ Gul Agha (1986). "Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems". Doctoral Dissertation. . MIT Press
- ^ ACM. Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems. Guide to Computing Literature. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
- ^ IEEE. Fellow Class of 2002. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
[edit] External links
- Agha's official webpage at the UIUC Open System Laboratory
- List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server.
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