Bob Rau
Bantwal Ramakrishna "Bob" Rau (* 1951 , † 10. December 2002 in Los Altos , California ) was a from India originating American computer engineer.
Rau studied electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras with a bachelor's degree and at Stanford University with a master's degree and doctorate.
Rau co-founded, in 1984 with Wei Yen, David Yen, Ross Towle and Arun Kumar, Cydrome in San José , a computer company that pioneered the use of Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) in processor design. The company was closed shortly after the presentation of its processor in 1988 (Cydra 5 mini supercomputer), but the technology was used in the Itanium processors from Hewlett-Packard and Intel (from 2000). Rau was the main architect of the processor. In 1989 he went to Hewlett-Packard and continued the development of VLIW techniques and parallel processing of instructions (in hardware and associated compilers). He headed the Compiler and Architecture Research Program (CAR), which developed the EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) compiler technology in 1998 with the research compiler Elcor. In the 1990s he also headed the PICO program (Program In, Chip Out), which pursued the automated development of applications (hardware and associated compilers) according to customer specifications.
In addition to his work at HP, he was Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . He died of cancer.
In 2002 he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award . He was an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rough, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rau, Bantwal Ramakrishna (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 2002 |
| Place of death | Los Altos (California) |