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2nd International Workshop on
Adaptive Self-Tuning Computing Systems for the Exaflop Era (EXADAPT 2012) London, UK March 3rd, 2012 Co-located with ASPLOS 2012 |
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Self-Tuning Bio-Inspired Massively-Parallel Computing
Prof. Steve Furber, ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK
Short bio:
Steve Furber is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Aerodynamics in 1980 from the University of Cambridge, England. From 1980 to 1990 he worked at Acorn Computers Ltd and was a principal designer of the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. At Manchester in 1990 he leads the Advanced Processor Technologies group with research interests in multicore computing, low-power Systems-on-Chip and neural systems engineering. Steve is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the IEEE. In 2012 he was made a Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) Fellow Award honoree.
Prof. Steve Furber, ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK
Short bio:
Steve Furber is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Aerodynamics in 1980 from the University of Cambridge, England. From 1980 to 1990 he worked at Acorn Computers Ltd and was a principal designer of the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. At Manchester in 1990 he leads the Advanced Processor Technologies group with research interests in multicore computing, low-power Systems-on-Chip and neural systems engineering. Steve is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the IEEE. In 2012 he was made a Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) Fellow Award honoree.