Robert Blumofe
Robert Blumofe · Technology & Engineering
Co-created work-stealing scheduling (Cilk) for parallel computing; Kanellakis Award (2013)
2013
United States
Robert Blumofe is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-created work-stealing scheduling (Cilk) for parallel computing; Kanellakis Award (2013)
Blumofe, with Charles Leiserson, won the 2013 Paris Kanellakis Award for developing provably efficient randomized work-stealing scheduling and the Cilk language for multithreaded parallel computing, techniques now ubiquitous on multicore platforms. He earned his Ph.D. at MIT and became an executive at Akamai Technologies; he is included among Jewish figures in computer science. Publicly available sources do not document his religious practice in detail.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award
Co-created work-stealing scheduling (Cilk) for parallel computing; Kanellakis Award (2013)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award
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