Maurice Herlihy

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Maurice Herlihy is a computer scientist active in the field of multiprocessor synchronization.[1][2][3] Herlihy has contributed to the design of concurrent algorithms, and in particular to the exposition and quantification of the properties and uses of hardware synchronization operations. He is currently (2013) a professor of computer science at Brown University.[4]

Recognition

References

  1. "Linearizability: a correctness condition for concurrent objects". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). Retrieved 27 June 2013. 
  2. "Transactional memory: architectural support for lock-free data structures". ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News - Special Issue: Proceedings of the 20th annual international symposium on Computer architecture (ISCA '93). Retrieved 27 June 2013. 
  3. "Wait-free synchronization". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). Retrieved 27 June 2013. 
  4. "Maurice Herlihy - Brown Research Directory". Retrieved 27 June 2013. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing". ACM Proceedings on Distributed Computing. Retrieved 27 June 2012. 
  6. "Gödel Prize". ACM SIGACT. Retrieved 20 August 2011. 
  7. "ACM: Fellows Award / Maurice P Herlihy". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 20 August 2011. 
  8. "W. Wallace McDowell Award". IEEE. Retrieved 5 May 2013. 

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