David Ethan Culler (born November 12, 1959) is a computer scientist and former chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. He is a principal investigator in the Software Defined Buildings (SDB) project at the EECS Department at Berkeley and the faculty director of the i4Energy Center. His research addresses networks of small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high performance communication. This includes

TinyOS TinyOS is an embedded, component-based operating system and platform for low-power wireless devices, such as those used in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), smartdust, ubiquitous computing, personal area networks, building automation, and smart me ...

, Berkeley Motes,

PlanetLab PlanetLab was a group of computers available as a testbed for computer networking and distributed systems research. It was established in 2002 by Prof. Larry L. Peterson and Prof. David Culler, and by 2005 it had been deployed at 252 sites in ...

, Networks of Workstations (NOW), Internet services, Active Message,

Split-C Split-C is a parallel extension of the C programming language. The Split-C project website describes Split-C as: a parallel extension of the C programming language that supports efficient access to a global address space on current distributed me ...

, and the Threaded Abstract Machine (TAM). Culler earned his B.A. at UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. at MIT. Culler was elected a member of the

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American Nonprofit organization, nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. It is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), along with the National Academ ...

in 2005 for contributions to scalable parallel processing systems, including architectures, operating systems, and programming environments. He is also a Fellow of both ACM and IEEE. In 2003 his work on networks of wireless sensors earned him a place on Scientific American's annual list of top 50 innovators and Technology Review's “10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World.” More recently, he has received the 2013 SIGCOMM Test of Time Award for

, and the 2013 Okawa Prize. Culler founded Arch Rock, a company that makes wireless networked sensors. He recently joined Google as a distinguished engineer. David Culler is the son of noted computer scientist Glen Culler, and the brother of distinguished pure mathematician

Marc Culler Marc Edward Culler (born November 22, 1953) is an American mathematician who works in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. A native Californian, Culler did his undergraduate work at the University of California at Santa Barbara and ...

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External links

Culler's webpage
Living people American computer scientists 2002 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni Researchers in distributed computing 1959 births UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty Scientists from Berkeley, California {{compu-scientist-stub