Aaron Becker, an American mathematician, computer scientist and software engineer at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California. He holds a B.Sc. in CS and mathematics from Harvey Mudd College in 2004, and a Ph.D in CS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012, where he was research assistant in the Parallel Programming Lab [1], working on finite element methods, a multiphase shared arrays library in Charm++, adaptive MPI, parallel state space search and compiler support for productive parallel programming [2]. Starting in 2009, he developed the chess engine Daydreamer.
Aaron Becker [3]

Selected Publications

• Aaron Becker, Gengbin Zheng, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2011). Distributed Memory Load Balancing. Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, Springer
• Phil Miller, Aaron Becker, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2011). Using Shared Arrays in Message-Driven Parallel Programs. HIPS 2011
• Aaron Becker (2012). Compiler Support for Productive Message-Driven Parallel Programming. Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor Laxmikant V. Kalé

Forum Posts

• Test suites for specific engine features by Aaron Becker, CCC, July 10, 2009
• Announcing Daydreamer 1.0 by Aaron Becker, CCC, August 16, 2009
• The strongest non-bitboard engine on 1 core by Aaron Becker, CCC, February 14, 2010
• In praise of git, cutechess-cli, bayeselo, and pgn-extract by Aaron Becker, CCC, March 02, 2010 ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}
• UCI extensions for kibitzing by Aaron Becker, CCC, March 05, 2010 » UCI
• Developments of the last two years by Aaron Becker, CCC, March 02, 2013
• Re: copy/make vs make/unmake by Aaron Becker, CCC, January 07, 2014 » Copy-Make, Make Move, Unmake Move
• Re: Good question: What % improvement is hardware vs. software by Aaron Becker, CCC, January 17, 2014

External Links

• Aaron Becker | LinkedIn
• AaronBecker (Aaron Becker) · GitHub
• AaronBecker/project-euler · GitHub ^[10]
• Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker

References

1. ^ Aaron Becker | LinkedIn
2. ^ Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker
3. ^ Aaron Becker | LinkedIn
4. ^ Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker
5. ^ dblp: Aaron Becker (mixed up with Aaron T. Becker, 2012 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, also from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
6. ^ Git (software) from Wikipedia
7. ^ Cutechess-cli by Ilari Pihlajisto and Arto Jonsson
8. ^ BayesElo by Rémi Coulom
9. ^ pgn-extract: Portable Game Notation (PGN) Manipulator for Chess Games by David J. Barnes
10. ^ Project Euler from Wikipedia

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