NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally Honored By ACM and IEEE
Two leading computing organizations today honored NVIDIA chief scientist Bill Dally with the Eckert-Mauchly Award, which is considered the worlds most prestigious prize for computer architecture. In awarding the prize, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE) called Dally a visionary for advancing the state of computing using parallel processors.
Prior to joining NVIDIA last year as chief scientist, Dally served from 2005 to 2009 as chairman of Stanfords Computer Science department, where he had been a computer science professor since 1997. Previously, he led the group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that built the J-Machine and M-Machine, parallel machines which pioneered the separation of mechanism from programming models. Previously at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he designed the MOSSIM Simulation Engine to provide the computing power required to verify complex Very Large Scale Integration chips. He also designed the Torus Routing chip, a self-timed chip that reduces the latency of communications that traverse more than one channel.
Comments are closed.