Hsiang-Tsung Kung

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Hsiang-Tsung Kung , often cited as HT Kung , ( Chinese  孔祥 重 , Pinyin Kǒng Xiángchóng , born November 9, 1945 in Shanghai , China ) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and computer architect.

Life

Kung graduated from Tsing Hua National University with a bachelor’s degree in 1968, received his master’s degree from the University of New Mexico in 1970, and received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1974 with Joseph Frederick Traub (Topics in Analytic Computational Complexity). In 1974 he became an assistant professor and later professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and from 1992 he was Gordon McKay professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Harvard University . Today he is William H. Gates Professor. He developed a PhD program in Information, Technology and Management with Harvard Business School .

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983/84. In 1991 he received the Inventor of the Year Award from the Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association. In 2018, Kung was named the first president of the Taiwan AI Academy.

He dealt with complexity theory , algorithms, parallel computers and their architecture as well as parallel computing, very large scale integration , computer and telecommunication networks (and e.g. networking of drones), network security and databases. He is known as the inventor and popularizer of systolic arrays , which he introduced in 1978 with Charles Leiserson. From 1984 he led various WARP projects at Carnegie Mellon University, in which (funded by DARPA) the concept of the systolic array as the basis of computers was explored (in collaboration with General Electric, Intel, Honeywell) up to iWARP from 1988 Intel (in which the node of the parallel computer with processor, memory and communication links was integrated on a chip, similar to the transputer ). He also developed Optimistic Concurrency Control with John T. Robinson , for which both received the ACM SIGOPS 2015 Hall of Fame Award for the most influential essay on operating systems in the last ten years, and with Hong-Jia Wei the theory of input / output complexity. The concept of read-copy-update (RCU), a synchronization mechanism in operating systems, also goes back to him. Most recently (2015) he has been working on data analysis and compressive sensing.

He has been married since 1970 and has two children.

His PhD students include Charles Leiserson , Robert Tappan Morris , Brad Karp, and Monica Lam .

Fonts

  • HT Kung, CE Leiserson: Algorithms for VLSI processor arrays; in: Carver Mead, Lynn Conway (Eds.): Introduction to VLSI Systems; Addison-Wesley, 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Hsiang-Tsung Kung in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Taiwan News - Academia Sinica to open Taiwan AI Academy: (English) [1] at www.taiwannews.com.tw, ​​accessed on January 26, 2019 - online
  4. ↑ Kung, Robinson, On optimistic methods for concurrency control, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Volume 6, 1991, pp. 213-226
  5. ^ Wei, Kung, I / O complexity: The red-blue pebble game, STOC 81 (ACM Symp. Theory Computing), pp. 326–333
personal data
SURNAME Kung, Hsiang-Tsung
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai