Michael Lee Scott (born 1959) is a professor of

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at the

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in Rochester, New York.

Education and teaching

Scott received a

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from the

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in 1985. He joined the faculty at Rochester the same year as an assistant professor of computer science. Scott was chair of the computer science department from 1996 until 1999, when he was succeeded by Mitsunori Ogihara. He served again as interim chair from July to December 2007 and from July to December 2017. In 2001, Scott received the University of Rochester’s

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and Pamela Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching.

Research

In 2006, Scott and John Mellor-Crummey were awarded the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for a paper they wrote in 1991, "Algorithms for Scalable Synchronization on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors." In 2005, Scott, along with William Scherer III and Doug Lea developed a set of algorithms to handle lock-free concurrent exchanges and synchronous queues. These algorithms are included in the Java 6 concurrency library. In 2006 he was inducted as a

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of the

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Notable publications

* Revised editions in 2006, 2009, 2015. * *

Personal

Scott is a Unitarian Universalist. He served as secretary of the New York State Convention of Universalists from 1991 to 1999 and as President from 2001 to 2005. In June 2004, he spoke at the

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General Assembly in favor of electronic voting machines, so long as they retained a paper backup.

References

External links

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Michael Scott's personal webpage
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Programming Language Pragmatics
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Michael L. 1959 births American computer scientists Researchers in distributed computing 2006 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Living people University of Rochester faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Dijkstra Prize laureates