Edward S. Davidson is a professor emeritus in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the

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Research interests

His research interests include computer architecture, pipelining theory, parallel processing, performance modeling, intelligent caches, and application tuning. In the 1970s, he developed the reservation table approach to optimum design and cyclic scheduling of pipelines, designed and implemented an eight-node symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system in 1976, and developed a variety of systematic methods for modeling performance and enhancing systems, including early work on simulated annealing, wave pipelining, multiple instruction stream pipelines, decoupled access-execute architecture, and polycyclic scheduling (aka

software pipelining In computer science, software pipelining is a technique used to optimize loops, in a manner that parallels hardware pipelining. Software pipelining is a type of out-of-order execution, except that the reordering is done by a compiler (or in the ...

). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Education

*1961

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

, B.A. in Mathematics *1962

, M.S. in Communication Science *1968

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Teaching

*1968–1973

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, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering *1973–1987

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering *1988–present

, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Service

*1984-1987 Hardware Design Director, Cedar Parallel Supercomputer at the University of Illinois Center for Supercomputing Research and Development *1988-1990 Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan *1994-1997 Director, Center for Parallel Computing, University of Michigan *1997-2000 Associate chair for Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

Awards

*1992 IEEE

Harry H. Goode Memorial Award The Harry H. Goode Memorial Award is an IEEE Computer Society annual awards in honor of Harry H. Goode for achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outsta ...

for "pivotal seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance computer systems." *1996 Taylor L. Booth Education Award for "contributions to the establishment of computer engineering as an academic discipline and for nurturing many leaders of this field during their formative years in the profession." *2000 IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award "for his seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance pipelines and multiprocessor systems"

References

External links

Official Michigan page
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