Harold S. Stone

Harold Stuart Stone (born August 10, 1938 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American computer engineer.

Stone graduated from Princeton University ( bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering 1960) and from the University of California, Berkeley , with a master's degree in 1961 and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1963. He was an associate professor at Stanford University from 1968 to 1974 and 1974 to 1984 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst . From 1984 he conducted research on computer architecture at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM and later on image processing at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton (as an NEC Fellow ).

He did research on parallel computer architecture and wrote standard textbooks on computer architecture, for which he was awarded several prizes.

In 1992 he received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award , in 1999 the Taylor L. Booth Award and in 1991 the Charles Babbage Award . He is an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1993). He was also Associate Editor of the Journal of the ACM and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems .

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High Performance Computer Architecture , Addison-Wesley 1987, 2nd edition 1993
Publisher Introduction to Computer Architecture , 1975, 2nd edition, Chicago: Science Research Associates 1980
Introduction to Computer Organization and Data Structures , McGraw Hill 1971
Discrete mathematical structures and their applications , Chicago: Science Research Associates 1973
Microcomputer Interfacing , Addison-Wesley 1982
with Daniel Siewiorek Introduction to computer organization and data structures, PDP-11 edition , McGraw Hill 1975

↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004

personal data
SURNAME	Stone, Harold S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stone, Harold Stuart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Louis , Missouri