Maurice Herlihy Named Recipient of 2013 IEEE Computer Society Wallace McDowell Award
- Posted by Amy Tarbox
- on March 28, 2013
Maurice Herlihy, a computer science professor at Brown University, has been named the 2013 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s prestigious W. Wallace McDowell Award for his contributions to multiprocessor computation. Herlihy, whose research focuses on practical and theoretical aspects of concurrent and distributed computing, was recognized for his “fundamental …