Jean-Loup Baer is a

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and Professor Emeritus at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

Biography

Jean-Loup Baer received a Diplome d'Ingénieur in Electrical Engineering and the Doctorat 3e cycle in Computer Science from the

University of Grenoble The (, ''Grenoble Alps University'', abbr. UGA) is a Grands établissements, ''grand établissement'' in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 researchers. Es ...

(France) and a Ph.D. from

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in 1968 under the supervision of

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Awards and honors

Baer was elected as an

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

in 1992 "for contributions to the design and analysis of parallel computer systems". In 1997, the

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named him an

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"for contributions to the design and evaluation of parallel processing systems, in particular in the areas of cache coherence protocols and techniques to tolerate memory latency".

Books

* ''Computer Systems Architecture'' (Computer Science Press, 1980) * ''Microprocessor Architecture: From Simple Pipelines to Chip Multiprocessors'' (

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

, 2010)

References

External links

* University of Washington
Professor Emeritus, University of Washington homepage
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