Selim Akl

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Selim G. Akl (Ph.D., McGill University, 1978) is a professor at Queen's University in the Queen's School of Computing, where he leads the Parallel Computation Group. His research interests are primarily in the area of algorithm design and analysis, in particular for problems in parallel computing.

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[edit] Activities

Dr. Akl is the editor in chief of Parallel Processing Letters (World Scientific Publishing; 1991 -) and an editor of several major computing journals including:

Akl is the founding editorial board member of International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (Inderscience Publishers; 2003 -), and a past editor of Journal of Cryptology (Springer-Verlag; 1988 - 1991), Information Processing Letters (North-Holland; 1989 - 1999), and Parallel Algorithms and Applications (Taylor and Francis; 1991 - 2004).

[edit] Current research

Akl has claimed that the notion of universality in computation is false.[1] Akl asserts that no machine can claim universality since there will always be a larger set of problems that such a machine cannot solve.

A more detailed description of Dr. Akl's Non universality in Computation result can be found here Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universal Computer

[edit] Conferences

Currently Dr. Akl is the chair of the 2007 International Conference on Unconventional Computation taking place in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

[edit] Publications

Akl is the author of several textbooks in the areas of parallel computing and computational geometry:

He is also the co-author of Parallel Computational Geometry (Prentice Hall, 1993).

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