Chris Lattner
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Chris Lattner (* 1978 ) is an American computer scientist.
Lattner graduated from the University of Portland with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 2000 and continued his studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . There he worked with Vikram Adve on the development of LLVM , an infrastructure project for optimizing compilers . He obtained a master’s degree and received his doctorate in 2005 ( Macroscopic Data Structure Analysis and Optimization ). He then went to Apple , where he used LLVM technology in various products ( Clang , Xcode , Instruments , Swift , JIT - OpenGL compiler, among others). Some of his developments are also open source software (such as the LLDB debugger ). Most recently, he was Apple Senior Director and Architect of the Developer Tools Department. After working for Tesla on their autopilot project for a short time in 2017 , he switched to Google , where he works on the Google Brain project. He is Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer on the TensorFlow team.
His wife Tanya Lattner is also a computer scientist and has been President of the LLVM Foundation since 2015.
In 2010 he received the first ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for LLVM. In 2012 he received the ACM Software System Award .
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Individual evidence
- ^ CV of Lattner , 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lattner, Chris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |