Thomas Sterling (born December 18, 1949) is a full professor for the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) at

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(IU) Bloomington. At IU, he is the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Computing Systems Laboratory (AICSL). He received his Ph.D in 1984 at

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. For more than four decades, Thomas Sterling has dedicated his professional contributions to research for advancements in parallel high-performance computing. Dr. Sterling is best known as the “father of

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” clusters. Among his other early accomplishments, Dr. Sterling was Principal investigator for the multi-agency multi-institution

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for advanced research on Petaflops computing systems. Professor Sterling currently leads advanced research in non-von Neumann parallel architecture, ParalleX execution model, and HPX+ runtime system for scalable dynamic irregular graph-based knowledge-oriented artificial intelligence applications. Thomas Sterling is also President and co-founder of Simultac LLC, an advanced computing technology engineering company. Professor Sterling is the co-author of eight books and holds seven patents. Thomas Sterling is a Fellow of the

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and winner of the Gordon Bell Prize.

Education

Sterling began his undergraduate studies in 1968 at the

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completing his BSEE degree in 1972 (Summa Cum Laude) from the

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. Upon separation from the US Navy in 1977, he matriculated at the

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. Thomas Sterling earned his SMEE from MIT in 1981, his EE in 1983, and his Ph.D in 1984 as a Hertz Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Robert H. Halstead.

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Living people Free software programmers Indiana University faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Computer science educators 1949 births {{programmer-stub