David Kuck

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David Jerome Kuck (born October 3, 1937 in Muskegon , Michigan ) is an American computer designer and computer scientist .

Kuck studied at the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and at Northwestern University with a master's degree in 1960 and a doctorate in 1963. From 1965 to 1993 he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . There he was director of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development (CSRD) from 1986 to 1993 .

At the university he was a pioneer in the development of compilers with automatic vectorization in the late 1970s (Parafrase Compiler 1977) and founded Kuck and Associates (KAI) in 1979 to develop compilers for vector and parallel computers. He was also - as the only software expert - involved in the university's ILLIAC IV parallel computer project. In the 1980s he led the CEDAR project at the University of Illinois for a symmetrical multiprocessor supercomputer with 32 processors and shared memory. The computer went into operation in 1988. From 1993 he concentrated on his company Kuck and Associates, which was taken over by Intel in 2000 . He then worked for Intel as an Intel Fellow in the Software and Services Group (SSG), Developer Products Division (DPD).

Kuck was the main architect of the Burroughs Scientific Processor (BSP) and the Alliant Multiprocessor . He made significant contributions to OpenMP .

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the ACM . In 1993 he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award and in 2011 the Computer Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computer Society .

His son Jonathan Kuck is a successful speed skater (silver medal winner in the 2010 Olympic Games in the team pursuit).

Fonts

  • Structures of computers and computation, Wiley 1978
  • Parallel Processing of Ordinary Programs, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois 1975
  • High performance computing: challenges for future systems, Oxford University Press 1996

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Look, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuck, David Jerome (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer designer and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Muskegon , Michigan