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Kuck & Associates, Inc.

David J. Kuck: List of publications

D. J. Kuck and K. Maruyama: SIAM Journal on Computing

David J. Kuck served as president of Kuck & Associates from its founding in 1979 until 1988, when he was elected chairman of the board of directors. He has been professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at MIT and a director of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received the Emanuel R. Piore Award from IEEE, an Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University, the Eckert-Mauchly Award from the ACM-IEEE, and the Charles Babbage Outstanding Scientist Award. His many publications include The Structure of Computers and Computations and High-Performance Computing: Challenges for Future Generations.He has sat on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals and program committees, given distinguished lectures and keynote addresses at major conferences worldwide, and served as consultant to many supercomputer corporations. His research centers on practical parallelism tests and development of parallel software engineering techniques and restructuring compilers for high-performance sequential and parallel systems.


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