David I. August (born November 27, 1970) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University specializing in compilers and computer architecture. August is a strong advocate of alternatives to parallel programming to address the software impact of

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computing. August was born in Troy, New York and raised in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, graduated ''

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in 1993, and received his PhD in electrical and

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from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 under advisor Wen-mei Hwu. His thesis, entitled ''Systematic Compilation for Predicated Execution'', represented a breakthrough in compilers. Specifically, it showed how a compiler could generate efficient code for architectures with branch predication, such as Intel's IA-64. In 1999, August was selected as one of five new Ph.D.'s to watch by the '' Chronicle of Higher Education''. Since then, he has produced dozens of articles relating to compilers and computer architecture. The IEEE Computer Society's annual "Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences" has recognized his work on microprocessor fault tolerance and his work on multi-core computation for relevance and significance to the field. In 2012, he testified as an expert witness in the

Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. ''Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.'', 593 U.S. ___ (2021), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision related to the nature of computer code and copyright law. The dispute centered on the use of parts of the Java programming language's application progra ...

patent lawsuit on behalf of Google and stated that the Dalvik virtual machine used in Android did not infringe on Oracle's symbolic reference patent.

Awards and honors

August became an IEEE Fellow in 2015 "for contributions to compilers and architectures for multicore and parallel processing systems".IEEE Fellows Directory
retrieved 2015-04-15.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:August, David Living people 1970 births People from Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey Princeton University faculty Fellow Members of the IEEE Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni Grainger College of Engineering alumni