David Kuck

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David Kuck was a professor in the Computer Science Department the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1965 to 1993. While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign he developed the Parafrase compiler system (1977), which is used as a testbed for the development of vectorization and program transformation. He also led the construction of the CEDAR project, a hierarchical shared-memory 32-processor SMP supercomputer completed in 1988 at the University of Illinois.[1]

Kuck is currently an Intel Fellow, Software and Solutions Group, and Director of the Parallel and Distributed Solutions Division (PDSD). He founded Kuck and Associates (KAI) in 1979 to build optimizing compilers especially focused upon exploiting parallelism. KAI was later acquired by Intel.

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Kuck is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has won the Eckert-Mauchly Award from ACM/IEEE and the Charles Babbage Outstanding Scientist Award.

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  1. ^ UIUC Computer Science Department's Online Historical Timeline

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