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		Robert D. Blumofe, an American computer scientist and programmer, Senior Vice President of Networks and Operations at Akamai Technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT under advisor Charles Leiserson [1], and was co-author of MIT's first Cilk-Chess program, Star Socrates [2].
Robert Blumofe [3]

Quotes

Chris Joerg's and Bradley Kuszmaul's acknowledgments in Massively Parallel Chess on *Socrates ^[4]:

Charles E. Leiserson, Robert D. Blumofe, Yuli Zhou, and Michael Halbherr all contributed to making the chess program work and to developing the underlying parallel technology used in *Socrates. Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman of Heuristic Software provided the serial program, Socrates, on which our parallel program is based, and Don worked many hours to help us get our parallel program working. Hans Berliner and Chris McConnell of CMU provided the serial version of Hitech that we first used as a testbed to develop our ideas for parallel game tree search.

Selected Publications

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• Robert Blumofe (1992). Managing Storage for Multithreaded Computations. Masters Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, pdf
• Eric Brewer, Robert Blumofe (1994). Strata: A Multi-Layer Communications Library. Technical Report, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, pdf
• Robert Blumofe (1995). Executing Multithreaded Programs Efficiently. Ph.D. thesis, MIT, pdf
• Robert Blumofe, Chris Joerg, Bradley Kuszmaul, Charles Leiserson, Keith H. Randall, Yuli Zhou (1995). Cilk: An Efficient Multithreaded Runtime System. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), pdf
• Robert Blumofe, Phil Lisiecki (1996). Adaptive and Reliable Parallel Computing on Networks of Workstations. Proceedings of the USENIX 1997 Annual Technical Conference on UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems, Anaheim, California, pdf
• Robert Blumofe, Charles Leiserson (1999). Scheduling Multithreaded Computations by Work Stealing. Journal of the ACM, September, 1999, pdf

External Links

• Robert Blumofe - Senior Vice President of Networks and Operations at Akamai
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Robert Blumofe
• Robert Blumofe | LinkedIn

References

1. ^ Robert Blumofe (1995). Executing Multithreaded Programs Efficiently. Ph.D. thesis, MIT, advisor Charles Leiserson, pdf
2. ^ 8th World Computer Chess Championship available as pdf reprint Courtesy of Monroe Newborn from The Computer History Museum
3. ^ Photo from Robert Blumofe - Senior Vice President of Networks and Operations at Akamai
4. ^ Chris Joerg, Bradley Kuszmaul (1994). Massively Parallel Chess. Proceedings of the Third DIMACS Parallel Implementation Challenge, pdf
5. ^ SuperTech Paper Listing
6. ^ dblp: Robert D. Blumofe

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