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Ken Kennedy (computer scientist)

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and the Director of the Center for High Performance Software Research (HiPerSoft). As of November 20, 2006, he had directed the PhD dissertations of 38 graduate students and masters theses for 8 students.
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in 1995. In recognition of his achievements in compilation for high performance computer systems, he was honored as the recipient of the 1995
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Programming Languages Achievement Award, the third time this award was given. In 2005, he was elected to the
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He wrote over 200 articles and book chapters, plus numerous conference addresses. Kennedy was elected to the
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The rise and fall of High Performance Fortran: an historical object lesson
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Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach
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The rise and fall of High Performance Fortran: an historical object lesson
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Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
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Kennedy directed the construction of several substantial
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1995 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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at the age of 61. At the time of his death he was the
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Houston, Texas
Rice University
New York University
Computer sciences
Rice University
Doctoral advisor
Jacob T. Schwartz
Mary Hall
Kathryn S. McKinley
Hausi A. Muller
computer scientist
professor
Rice University
software
parallel
computers
automatic vectorizer
Fortran 77
compilers
Fortran 90
High Performance Fortran
MATLAB
National Academy of Engineering
AAAS
ACM
IEEE
W. W. McDowell Award
IEEE Computer Society
SIGPLAN

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