James Richard "Jim" Goodman (born July 16, 1944) retired as professor of computer science at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

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, and emeritus professor at the

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Education and research

Goodman received a PhD from the

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in 1980. He joined the faculty at the

the same year as an assistant professor of computer science. Goodman's research is focused mainly on computer architecture: the hardware/software interface. His current interests are primarily focused on support for

Transactional Memory In computer science and engineering, transactional memory attempts to simplify concurrent programming by allowing a group of load and store instructions to execute in an atomic way. It is a concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transa ...

. Goodman's seminal 1983 paper, "Using cache memory to reduce processor-memory traffic", was the first to describe snooping

cache coherence In computer architecture, cache coherence is the uniformity of shared resource data that ends up stored in multiple local caches. When clients in a system maintain caches of a common memory resource, problems may arise with incoherent data, whi ...

protocols and to identify the phenomenon of cache being able to conserve the memory bandwidth. Goodman is the co-author of ''A Programmer's View of Computer Architecture'' , a highly acclaimed book on computer architecture, and co-authored with

Andrew Tanenbaum Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes referred to by the handle ast, is an American-Dutch computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the author ...

''Structured Computer Organization'' . In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the

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"for contributions to shared-memory multiprocessor system design". In 2010, he was named a Fellow of the

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"for contributions to parallel processor and memory system design." In 2013, he received the

Eckert–Mauchly Award The Eckert–Mauchly Award recognizes contributions to digital systems and computer architecture. It is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. First awarded in 1979, it was named for John Presper Eckert and Jo ...

for "breakthroughs in architecture of shared-memory multiprocessors".

Personal

Goodman was born in 1944 in

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. Because of his expertise in the field of computer science, he has been interviewed several times as an expert on TV shows such as

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References

External links

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James Goodman's page at Auckland

James Goodman's profile on the IEEE Computer website
1944 births American computer scientists Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Academic staff of the University of Auckland Computer designers Computer systems researchers American electrical engineers People from Topeka, Kansas Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE {{educationist-stub