James Richard "Jim" Goodman (born July 16, 1944) is an emeritus professor of computer science at the

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and an honorary professor at the

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Education and research

Goodman received a

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from the

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in 1980. He joined the faculty at the

the same year as an assistant professor of computer science. Goodman's research is focused mainly on computer architecture. His current interests are primarily focused on support for

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. Goodman's seminal 1983 paper, "Using cache memory to reduce processor-memory traffic", was the first to describe snooping

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protocols and to identify the phenomenon of cache being able to conserve the memory bandwidth. Goodman is the co-author of ''A Programmer's View of Computer Architecture'' , a highly acclaimed book on computer architecture, and co-authored with

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''Structured Computer Organization'' . In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the

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"for contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor system design". In 2010, he was named a Fellow of the

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"for contributions to parallel processor and memory system design." In 2013, he received the

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for "breakthroughs in architecture of shared-memory multiprocessors".

Personal

Goodman was born in 1944 in

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. Because of his expertise in the field of computer science, he has been interviewed several times as an expert on TV shows such as

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References

External links

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James Goodman's page at Auckland

James Goodman's profile on the IEEE Computer website
1944 births American computer scientists Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Academic staff of the University of Auckland Computer designers Computer systems researchers American electrical engineers People from Topeka, Kansas Fellows of the IEEE {{educationist-stub