Edward Davidson
Edward Steinberg Davidson (born December 27, 1939 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American computer engineer.
Davidson studied mathematics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and communication science at the University of Michigan with a master's degree in 1962. He then worked at Honeywell until 1965 as an engineer in logic design. In 1968 he received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , went to Stanford University as a professor in 1968 and as a professor at the University of Illinois in 1973. In 1988 he became a professor at the University of Michigan, where he headed the computer science faculty from 1988 to 1990, headed the Center for Parallel Computing from 1994 to 1997 and retired in 2000.
He headed the hardware developer of the Cedar parallel computer at the Supercomputer Center of the University of Illinois from 1984 to 1987. Even before that, in 1976 he and students had designed a symmetrical multiprocessor system with 8 processors. He contributed to the design of pipeline architectures ( reservation table method ) and software pipelining.
As a computer architect, he worked for Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, among others, and was a consultant at DEC and various US government agencies. In 2000 he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award and in 1992 the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award from the IEEE. He is an IEEE Fellow and headed the Computer Architecture Department (SIGARCH) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from 1979 to 1983 .
Joel Emer is one of his PhD students .
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- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davidson, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Davidson, Edward Steinberg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |