Ken Kennedy (computer scientist)

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Ken Kennedy
Computer sciences
InstitutionsRice University
Doctoral advisorJacob T. Schwartz
Doctoral students

Ken Kennedy (August 12, 1945 – February 7, 2007) was an American computer scientist and professor at Rice University. He was the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department.[1][2]

Kennedy directed the construction of several substantial

Fortran 90 and High Performance Fortran, and a compilation system for domain languages based on the numerical computing environment MATLAB
.

He wrote over 200 articles and book chapters, plus numerous conference addresses.

IEEE Computer Society. From 1997 to 1999, he served as co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). In 1999, he was named recipient of the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award, the third time this award was given. In 2005, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
.

Kennedy died of

Computer Science at Rice and the Director of the Center for High Performance Software Research (HiPerSoft). As of November 20, 2006, he had directed the PhD dissertations of 38 graduate students and masters theses for 8 students.[2]

Kennedy's last publication was The rise and fall of High Performance Fortran: an historical object lesson,[4] in which Kennedy discussed the general failure of the High Performance Fortran language which he had championed.

On November 18, 2009, the ACM and IEEE awarded the first Ken Kennedy CS Award[5] to Francine Berman of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The award was given at the ACM IEEE Supercomputing (or, "SC") '09 conference.[6]

Bibliography

  • Allen, Randy; Kennedy, Ken (2002). Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
    ISBN 1-55860-286-0
    .

References

  1. ^ cs.rice.edu -- Ken Kennedy CV
  2. ^ a b c Rice University - Ken Kennedy home page
  3. New York Times
    . Retrieved February 9, 2007.
  4. ^ The rise and fall of High Performance Fortran: an historical object lesson
  5. ^ "ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award - 2009". Archived from the original on 2009-03-21. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  6. ^ "Kennedy Award Recipient: Francine Berman". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2009-11-18.

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