Charles Leiserson is a computer scientist, specializing in the theory of parallel computing and distributed computing, and particularly practical applications thereof; as part of this effort, he developed the Cilk multithreaded language. He also helped pioneer the development of VLSI theory.
He received a B.S. degree in computer science and mathematics from Yale University in 1975, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981, where his advisor was H. T. Kung.
He then joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is now a Professor. In addition, he is a principal in the Theory of Computation research group in the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, as well as Director of Research for Akamai Technologies.
His dissertation, Area-Efficient VLSI Computation, won the first ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In 1985, the National Science Foundation awarded him a Presidential Young Investigator Award.
See also: Systolic array, Thinking Machines
Further reading
- Thomas H. Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein, Introduction to Algorithms, 1990
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