Alan L. Davis

For other people named Al Davis, see Al Davis (disambiguation).

Alan L. Davis is an American computer scientist and researcher, a professor of computer science at the University of Utah, and associate director of the C. S. department there.

Davis was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at MIT in 1969, and a Ph.D. in computer science under Bob Barton at Utah in 1972.[1]

With Bob Barton, in cooperation between Burroughs Corporation and Utah, Davis built the first operational dataflow or "data driven" computing machine, the DDM-1, between 1972 and 1976.[2]

In the early 1980s, Davis left his tenured professor position at Utah to work for Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, where he headed the computer architecture group and developed the "FAIM-1" architecture.[3] In 1988 he joined Hewlett-Packard labs in Palo Alto, where with Ken Stevens and Bill Coates he developed the "post office" switching architecture, a widely cited project.[4]

He returned to the University of Utah's School of Computing where he served as director of graduate studies in 2001[5] and as associate director since 2003,[6] and has continued to do research with companies such as Intel[7] and Hewlett-Packard.[8]

Davis is mainly known for his work in computer architecture and asynchronous circuits, including influential work on arbiters.[9] He has numerous technical publications and has supervised numerous Ph.D. dissertations.

References

  1. ^ "Computer Architecture Seminar Abstracts: Spring 2002". U. T. Austin Computer Architecture Seminar. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/arch/spring02/abstracts.html. Retrieved 2009-02-24. 
  2. ^ Joseph D. Dumas II (2006). Computer Architecture. CRC Press. p. 322. ISBN 9780849327490. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZWaUurOwMPQC&pg=PA322&dq=al-davis+ddm-1&as_brr=3&ei=bYykSbz2GovKlQTZrLyNAg. 
  3. ^ W. Bibel et al. (1987). "Parallel Inference Machine". In Philip C. Treleaven and Marco Vanneschi. Future Parallel Computers. Springer. p. 216. ISBN 9783540182030. http://books.google.com/books?id=P4JrMNtD7pUC&pg=PA216&dq=davis+FAIM-1&as_brr=3&ei=h4ikSerCA47ClQT_rL2NAg. 
  4. ^ K. W. Bolding and L. Snyder (1994). "Network Fault Detection and Recovery in the Chaos Router". In Gary M Koob and Clifford Lau. Foundations of Dependable Computing. Springer. p. 85. ISBN 9780585280028. http://books.google.com/books?id=4WHQL-P8GjsC&pg=PA85&dq=al-davis+ken-stevens&lr=&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES&ei=EIKkSfH4Oor8lQSo6-GLBQ. 
  5. ^ "22 New Graduate Students join School of Computing". The Utah Teapot. Fall 2001. http://www.cs.utah.edu/news/teapot/archives/fall2001.pdf. 
  6. ^ Thomas Hendersonby (Summer 2003). "Auf Wiedersehen!". The Utah Teapot. http://www.cs.utah.edu/news/teapot/archives/summer03.pdf. 
  7. ^ "Intel Published Articles Published in or about Q3, 2006". Intel Technology Journal. http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2006/v10i4/published/2006.htm. 
  8. ^ "Three-dimensional memory module architectures". United States Patent Application 20090103345. 2009. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0103345.html. 
  9. ^ Kees van Berkel (1993). Handshake Circuits. Cambridge University Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780521452540. http://books.google.com/books?id=VmXD_LF9354C&pg=RA1-PA42&dq=al-davis+ken-stevens&lr=&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES&ei=EIKkSfH4Oor8lQSo6-GLBQ. 

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