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Maurice Herlihy

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American computer scientist

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1954 · age 72
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Maurice Peter Herlihy is an American computer scientist active in the field of multiprocessor synchronization.

Awards 4

2013W. Wallace McDowell Award
2012Dijkstra Prize
2005ACM Fellow
2004Gödel Prize

Connected to Maurice 6

Nir ShavitAlso won Dijkstra PrizeRonald FaginAlso won W. Wallace McDowell AwardJohan HåstadAlso won Gödel PrizeShlomo MoranAlso won Gödel PrizeNati LinialAlso won Dijkstra PrizeKen KennedyAlso won W. Wallace McDowell Award

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Maurice Peter Herlihy is an American computer scientist active in the field of multiprocessor synchronization. Herlihy has contributed to areas including theoretical foundations of wait-free synchronization, linearizable data structures, applications of combinatorial topology to distributed computing, as well as hardware and software transactional memory. He is the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1994.

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Born 1954 · age 72
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