Tilak Agerwala
Tilak Agerwala (born March 8, 1950 in New Delhi ) is an Indian-American computer engineer.
Agerwala studied electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur with a degree in 1971 and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1975 . From 1979 he was with IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center . He held various management positions at IBM and did research in the field of high-performance processors. In the late 1990s, he was Vice President for Systems Development at IBM Research.
He worked with John Cocke on the development of a RISC processor (project name Cheetah, then 1985/86 America), which later became the basis of the Power-1 processor in the RS / 6000 and the PowerPC . Both coined the term superscalar for these processors in 1983 . He was director of Future Systems Technology from 1989 to 1992, was responsible for the RS / 6000 workstations and servers in the 1990s and in 1999/2000 for IBM's UNIX strategy.
In 1998 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award . He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a founding member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
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| SURNAME | Agerwala, Tilak |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Delhi |