Robert Marco Tomasulo was a computer scientist

Computer scientist

A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

, and the inventor of the Tomasulo algorithm

Tomasulo algorithm

The Tomasulo algorithm is a hardware algorithm developed in 1967 by Robert Tomasulo from IBM. It allows sequential instructions that would normally be stalled due to certain dependencies to execute non-sequentially...

. Tomasulo was the recipient of the 1997 Eckert–Mauchly Award "[f]or the ingenious Tomasulo's algorithm, which enabled out-of-order execution processors to be implemented."

On January 30, 2008, Tomasulo spoke at the University of Michigan College of Engineering

University of Michigan College of Engineering

The University of Michigan College of Engineering is the engineering unit of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. With an enrollment of 5,514 undergraduate and 2,646 graduate students as of 2009, the College of Engineering is one of the premier engineering schools in the United States...

 about his career and the history and development of out-of-order execution

Out-of-order execution

In computer engineering, out-of-order execution is a paradigm used in most high-performance microprocessors to make use of instruction cycles that would otherwise be wasted by a certain type of costly delay...

. The seminar, believed to be his last public appearance, can be viewed at http://inst-tech.engin.umich.edu/media/index.php?sk=tomasulo.

External links

• http://www.acm.org/awards/em_award_citations/tomasulo.html