Software Performance Engineering in a Post-Moore Era with Professor Charles Leiserson Podcast

In this episode

Professor and lifelong educator Charles Leiserson is working on solutions that will support continued improvements in computing performance and help today’s engineers and programmers adjust to and thrive in a post-Moore's Law era.

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About the speakers

Charles E. Leiserson

Professor, MIT EECS

Charles E. Leiseron received his B.S. from Yale University in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981. Leiseron joined the faculty of MIT in 1981, where he is now the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He also serves as the Associate Director and Chief Operating Office of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), leads the Supertech research group, and a member of the Theory of Computation group. Some of his achievements include, the 2014 ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award, IEEE Computer Society 2014 Taylor L. Booth Education Award, ACM 2013 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, 1982 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT.

Industry Impact
Charles Leiserson’s research centers on the theory of parallel computing, especially as it relates to engineering reality.

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