Joseph A. "Josh" Fisher is an American

United States

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 computer scientist

Computer science

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. He is a Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard

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 Senior Fellow. He worked at HP Labs from 1990 through 2006 in instruction-level parallelism and in custom embedded VLIW processors and their compilers. Fisher retired from active employment at HP in 2006.

Fisher studied at the Courant Institute of NYU

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

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 (B.A., M.A., and then Ph.D. in 1979), where he devised the Trace Scheduling

Trace scheduling

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 compiler algorithm and coined the term Instruction-level parallelism. As a professor at Yale University

Yale University

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, he created and named VLIW Architectures and invented many of the fundamental technologies of ILP. In 1984, he started Multiflow Computer with two members of his Yale team. He won an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984, was the 1987 Connecticut Eli Whitney Entrepreneur of the Year, and in 2003 received the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award

Eckert-Mauchly Award

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. Fisher coauthored Embedded Computing: A VLIW Approach to Architectures, Compilers and Tools, published in 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier

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