Dan Touitou
Dan Touitou · Technology & Engineering
Israeli co-inventor of software transactional memory; Dijkstra Prize (2012)
2012
Israel · United States
Dan Touitou is recognized among Israeli contributors to Technology & Engineering — Israeli co-inventor of software transactional memory; Dijkstra Prize (2012)
Touitou is an Israeli computer scientist who, with Nir Shavit, introduced and gave the first implementation of software transactional memory (STM) in a 1995 paper, a concurrency mechanism now widely studied in parallel computing; the work earned the 2012 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize. He worked in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University. He is listed among Jewish laureates by the reference site Jinfo; further details of his background are not widely documented.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize
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Israeli co-inventor of software transactional memory; Dijkstra Prize (2012)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize
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