Anant Agarwal
Anant M. Agarwal (* 1959 in Delhi ) is an Indian - American computer scientist .
Agarwal went to school in Mangalore . He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras ( bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1982) and received his master's degree from Stanford University in 1984 , where he received his doctorate in 1987. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1998 to 2003 he was Associate Director of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at MIT; from 2011 to 2012 he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He heads the Carbon Research Group at CSAIL for the development of hardware and operating systems for multi-core processor systems and cloud computing . In the same research direction, he is active as head of the Project Angstrom research network between universities and industry.
He was at the beginning of the 1990s, architect of Alewife multiprocessor project (a scalable shared memory - multi-processor system ) and developed the associated Sparcle processor (1992). He later used the technology in founding his own development company Tilera (founded in 2004), which developed the Tile multi-core processor.
At MIT, he also led the Raw project (multi-core processors with instruction level parallelism (ILP)) and the VirtualWires project in 2002.
In 2001 Agarwal received the Maurice Wilkes Award for Computer Architecture. In 2007 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery . In 1991 he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is president of edX, Harvard and MIT's free online learning initiative. In 2013 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
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| SURNAME | Agarwal, Anant |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Agarwal, Anant M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Delhi |