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a Dutch mathematician, computer scientist and Professor at [|Vrije Universiteit], [|Amsterdam]. He is a influential and luminary researcher and authority in [|parallel computing], [|computer cluster], parallel programming languages, optimizing compiler and parallel applications. Bal has been a member of over 30 program committees, and as such has had a major impact on the field of parallel computing. Henri Bal received a M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Delft University of Technology in 1982, and Ph.D. in CS in 1989 under the supervision of Andrew S. Tanenbaum. He was visiting researcher at [|Imperial College, London], [|University of Arizona], [|Tucson] and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Along with Robbert van Renesse in 1986, he wrote papers on parallel alpha-beta, with Victor Allis in 1995 on parallel retrograde analysis, and in 2002, with his student John Romein, he solved the game of Awari. || toc =DAS-3= Henri Bal was the driving force behind the acquisition and use of three large distributed cluster computers called the //Distributed ASCI Supercomputer// (DAS), a Computer Science [|Grid] with revolutionary [|Optical Interconnect].
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=Books=
 * Henri Bal (**1990**). //[|Programming Distributed Systems]// Silicon Press, ISBN 0 929306 05 8
 * Henri Bal, Dick Grune (**1994**). //[|Programming Language Essentials]//. Addison-Wesley
 * Dick Grune, Henri Bal, [|Ceriel J.H. Jacobs], [|Koen G. Langendoen] (**2000**). //[|Modern Compiler Design, First Edition]//. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
 * Dick Grune, Henri Bal, [|Ceriel J.H. Jacobs], [|Koen G. Langendoen] (**2010**). //[|Modern Compiler Design, Second Edition]//. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

=Selected Publications=

1986 ...

 * Henri Bal, Robbert van Renesse (**1986**). //Parallel Alpha-Beta Search//. 4th NGI-SION Symposium Stimulerende Informatica. Jaarbeurs Utrecht, The Netherlands. April 1986
 * Henri Bal, Robbert van Renesse (**1986**). //A Summary of Parallel Alpha-Beta Search Results//. ICCA Journal, Vol 9, No. 3
 * Henri Bal (**1989**). //[|The shared data-object model as a paradigm for programming distributed systems]//. Ph.D. thesis, [|Vrije Universiteit]

1990 ...

 * Henri Bal (**1991**). //Heuristic search in PARLOG using replicated worker style parallelism//. Future Generation Computer Systems 6, pp. 303-315. North-Holland.
 * Henri Bal (**1992**). //A comparative study of five parallel programming languages//. Future Generation Computer Systems 8, pp. 121-135. North-Holland.
 * Henri Bal, Victor Allis (**1995**). //Parallel Retrograde Analysis on a Distributed System//. Supercomputing ’95, San Diego, CA.
 * John Romein, Aske Plaat, Henri Bal, Jonathan Schaeffer (**1999**). //Transposition Table Driven Work Scheduling in Distributed Search//. AAAI-99, [|pdf]

2000 ...

 * John Romein, Henri Bal, Dick Grune (**2000**). //The Multigame Reference Manual//. [|Vrije Universiteit], [|pdf]
 * John Romein, Henri Bal (**2002**). //[|Awari is Solved]//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3
 * John Romein, Henri Bal, Jonathan Schaeffer, Aske Plaat (**2002**). //A Performance Analysis of Transposition-Table-Driven Scheduling in Distributed Search//. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 447–459. [|pdf]
 * John Romein, Henri Bal (**2003**). //Solving the Game of Awari using Parallel Retrograde Analysis//. IEEE Computer, Vol. 36, No. 10, pp. 26–33
 * John Romein, [|Jaap Heringa], Henri Bal (**2003**). //[|A Million-Fold Speed Improvement in Genomic Repeats Detection]//. ACM/IEEE SC2003 Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing

=External Links=
 * [|Henri Bal from Wikipedia]
 * [|Faculty of Science : Vrije Universiteit - Henri E. Bal]
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Henri Bal]

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