Background

Dr. Kogge has been at the forefront of several innovations that have shaped the computing industry over the past three decades. While working on his PhD at Stanford in the 1970s, Dr. Kogge invented what is still today considered the fastest way of adding numbers in a computer, the Kogge-Stone Adder

Kogge-Stone Adder

The Kogge–Stone adder is a parallel prefix form carry look-ahead adder. It generates the carry signals in O time, and is widely considered the fastest adder design possible. It is the common design for high-performance adders in industry....

 process, an approach still used in microprocessors by Intel and other companies and generally considered the fastest adding design possible.

After receiving his degree, Dr. Kogge joined the computer engineering team at IBM. During his time there, he was a co-inventor on over three dozen patents. His design of the Space Shuttle I/O processor at IBM was one of the first multithreaded computers, and the first to fly in space.

Contributions

Peter was the author of the first textbook on pipelining, a now ubiquitous technique for executing multiple instructions in a computer in parallel. At IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, Kogge was also the inventor of the world's first multi-core processor, EXECUBE, which Kogge and his team placed on a memory chip in an early effort to solve the data bottleneck problem that Emu is solving today.

In 1994, Dr. Kogge joined the University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...

 as a faculty member, the Ted H. McCourtney Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Most recently, he led a team of some the nation’s most renowned computer professionals, commissioned by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to explore what sorts of technologies engineers would need to build a supercomputer capable of executing a quintillion (a billion billion) mathematical operations per second. The results of this study were a cover story on the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum magazine in February, 2011.