Alan "Al" Lynn Davisis an Americancomputer scientistand researcher, a professor of computer science at theUniversity of Utah,and served as the associate director of theUniversity of Utah School of Computing.
Al Davis | |
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 Davis in the Nevada desert, November 2007 | |
| Born | |
| Alma mater | MIT University of Utah |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Utah SchlumbergerPalo Alto Research Hewlett-Packard |
| Thesis | SPL: A Structured Programming Language(1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert S. Barton |
Davis was raised inSalt Lake City, Utah.He received a bachelor's degree inelectrical engineeringatMITin 1969, and a Ph.D. in computer science underBob Bartonat Utah in 1972.[1]
With Bob Barton, in cooperation betweenBurroughs Corporationand Utah, Davis built the first operational dataflow or "data driven" computing machine, the DDM-1, between 1972 and 1976.[2]
In the early 1980s, Davis left his tenured professor position at Utah to work forSchlumbergerPalo Alto Research, where he headed the computer architecture group and developed the "FAIM-1" architecture.[3]In 1988 he joinedHewlett-Packardlabs in Palo Alto, where with Ken Stevens and Bill Coates he developed the "post office" switching architecture, a widely cited project.[4]
He returned to theUniversity of Utah School of Computingwhere he served as director of graduate studies in 2001[5] and as associate director since 2003,[6] and has continued to do research with companies such asIntel[7] andHewlett-Packard.[8]
Davis is mainly known for his work incomputer architectureandasynchronous circuits,including influential work onarbiters.[9]He has numerous technical publications and has supervised numerous Ph.D. dissertations.
References
edit- ^ "Computer Architecture Seminar Abstracts: Spring 2002".U. T. Austin Computer Architecture Seminar.Retrieved2009-02-24.
- ^ Joseph D. Dumas II (2006).Computer Architecture.CRC Press. p. 322.ISBN978-0-8493-2749-0.
- ^ W. Bibel; et al. (1987)."Parallel Inference Machine".In Philip C. Treleaven and Marco Vanneschi (ed.).Future Parallel Computers.Springer. p. 216.ISBN978-3-540-18203-0.
- ^ K. W. Bolding and L. Snyder (1994)."Network Fault Detection and Recovery in the Chaos Router".In Gary M. Koob and Clifford Lau (ed.).Foundations of Dependable Computing.Springer. p. 85.ISBN978-0-585-28002-8.
- ^ "22 New Graduate Students join School of Computing"(PDF).The Utah Teapot.Fall 2001. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2008-07-06.
- ^ Thomas Hendersonby (Summer 2003)."Auf Wiedersehen!"(PDF).The Utah Teapot.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2008-07-06.
- ^ "Intel Published Articles Published in or about Q3, 2006".Intel Technology Journal.
- ^ "Three-dimensional memory module architectures".United States Patent Application 20090103345.2009.
- ^ Kees van Berkel (1993).Handshake Circuits.Cambridge University Press. p. 42.ISBN978-0-521-45254-0.
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