Robert Alan Iannucci is a computer scientist. His areas of expertise include
multiprocessing
Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. There ar ...
and
embedded systems. He earned his PhD at
MIT in 1988 with a thesis titled "A dataflow/von Neumann hybrid architecture".
He was first at
IBM at the time of the mainframes, then at Exa Corporation, where he was a founder and Vice President of Product Marketing. In November 1995 he joined
Digital Equipment Corporation as Cambridge Research Lab Director, and then went on to
Compaq as Vice President of Corporate Research when DEC was acquired by Compaq. From May 2007, Iannucci was head of
Nokia's Research Center heading laboratories in Beijing, Tokyo, Palo Alto, Cambridge MA, Cambridge UK, Germany, and Finland. On the first of January 2008 he became the new chief technology officer of
Nokia. He was also the first member of the board who is not based in
Finland, remaining in
Palo Alto. In September 2008 he stepped down.
He now owns and runs the RAI Laboratory LLC.
In 2012 Robert Iannucci became the Director of the Cylab Mobility Research Center at
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley.
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References
External links
A list of Iannucci's published worksAmateur radio license W6EIRAI Laboratory LLCTechworld interview 26 Feb 2008Computerworld 26 Feb 2008Book "Multithreaded computer architecture: a summary of the state of the art"
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American computer scientists
American chief technology officers
Businesspeople in software
American computer businesspeople
American computer programmers
Nokia people
Digital Equipment Corporation people
IBM employees
Amateur radio people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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