Name Nir Shavit Role Author | Thesis 1990 | |
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Alma mater Technion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Known for Software transactional memory, wait-free algorithms Books The Art of Multiprocessor Programming Education Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Fields Computer Science, Parallel computing Notable awards Godel Prize, Dijkstra Prize | ||
Nir shavit locking from traditional to modern part 1
Nir Shavit (Hebrew: ניר שביט) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tel Aviv University and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Contents
- Nir shavit locking from traditional to modern part 1
- Nir shavit locking from traditional to modern part 2
- Recognition
- References
Nir Shavit received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1986, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990. Shavit is a co-author of the book The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, is a winner of the 2004 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science for his work on applying tools from algebraic topology to model shared memory computability, and a winner of the 2012 Dijkstra Prize for the introduction and first implementation of software transactional memory. He is a past program chair of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) and the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA).
His research covers techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessors, and in particular the design of concurrent data structures for multi-core machines.