Edward S. Davidson
Encyclopedia
Edward S. Davidson is a professor emeritus in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan
, Ann Arbor.
His research interests include computer architecture, pipelining theory, parallel processing, performance modeling, intelligent caches, and application tuning. In the 70s, he developed the reservation table approach to optimum design and cyclic scheduling of pipelines, designed and implemented an eight-node symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system in 1976, and developed a variety of systematic methods for modeling performance and enhancing systems, including early work on simulated annealing, wave pipelining, multiple instruction stream pipelines, decoupled access-execute architecture, and polycyclic scheduling (aka software pipelining
). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Ann Arbor.
His research interests include computer architecture, pipelining theory, parallel processing, performance modeling, intelligent caches, and application tuning. In the 70s, he developed the reservation table approach to optimum design and cyclic scheduling of pipelines, designed and implemented an eight-node symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system in 1976, and developed a variety of systematic methods for modeling performance and enhancing systems, including early work on simulated annealing, wave pipelining, multiple instruction stream pipelines, decoupled access-execute architecture, and polycyclic scheduling (aka software pipelining
Software pipelining
In computer science, software pipelining is a technique used to optimize loops, in a manner that parallels hardware pipelining. Software pipelining is a type of out-of-order execution, except that the reordering is done by a compiler instead of the processor...
). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Education
- 1961 Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, B.A. in Mathematics - 1962 University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, M.S. in Communication Science - 1968 University of Illinois, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Teaching
- 1968–1973 Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering - 1973–1987 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 1988–present University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Service
- 1984-1987 Hardware Design Director, Cedar Parallel Supercomputer at Center for Supercomputing Research at University of Illinois
- 1988-1990 Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
- 1994-1997 Director, Center for Parallel Computing, University of Michigan
- 1997-2000 Associate chair for Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Awards
- 1992 IEEE Harry H. Goode Memorial Award for "pivotal seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance computer systems."
- 1996 Taylor L. Booth Education Award for "contributions to the establishment of computer engineering as an academic discipline and for nurturing many leaders of this field during their formative years in the profession.”
- 2000 IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly AwardEckert-Mauchly AwardThe Eckert–Mauchly Award recognizes contributions to digital systems and computer architecture. First awarded in 1979, it was named for John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly, who between 1943 and 1946 collaborated on the design and construction of the first large scale electronic computing...
"for his seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance pipelines and multiprocessor systems"