Edward S. Davidson is a professor emeritus in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

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Research interests

His research interests include computer architecture, pipelining theory, parallel processing, performance modeling, intelligent caches, and application tuning. In the 1970s, he developed the reservation table approach to optimum design and cyclic scheduling of pipelines, designed and implemented an eight-node

symmetric multiprocessor Symmetric multiprocessing or shared-memory multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all ...

(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 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 (or in the ...

). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Education

*1961

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, B.A. in Mathematics *1962

, M.S. in Communication Science *1968

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, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Teaching

*1968–1973

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, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering *1973–1987

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, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering *1988–present

, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Service

*1984-1987 Hardware Design Director, Cedar Parallel Supercomputer at the University of Illinois Center for Supercomputing Research and Development *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 The Harry H. Goode Memorial Award is an IEEE Computer Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated discipline ...

for "pivotal seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance computer systems." *1996

Taylor L. Booth Education Award Taylor Lockwood Booth (September 22, 1933 – October 20, 1986) was a mathematician known for his work in automata theory. One of his fundamental works is ''Sequential Machines and Automata Theory'' (1967). It is a wide-ranging book meant f ...

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 Award "for his seminal contributions to the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of high performance pipelines and multiprocessor systems"

References

External links

Official Michigan page
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