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Maurice Herlihy

Dr. Maurice Herlihy
Visiting Professor
Scalable Synchronization Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories


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Burlington, MA 01803

Maurice Herlihy received the A.B. degree in Mathematics from Harvard University and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from MIT. He has been an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at Carnegie Mellon University, a member of research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge (MA) Research Lab, and a consultant for Sun Microsystems. He is now Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.

His research centers on practical and theoretical aspects of multiprocessor synchronization, with a focus on wait-free and lock-free synchronization. His 1991 paper ``Wait-Free Synchronization'' won the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, and he shared the 2004 Goedel Prize for his 1999 paper ``The Topological Structure of Asynchronous Computation''.

Latest Sun Patents

  		• Space-adaptive lock-free queue using pointer-sized single-target synchronization
    (Aug 18, 2009)
  		• Space-adaptive lock-free free-list using pointer-sized single-target synchronization
    (May 12, 2009)
  		• Space- and time-adaptive nonblocking algorithms
    (Jul 1, 2008)
  		• Selectively unmarking load-marked cache lines during transactional program execution
    (Jun 17, 2008)
  		• Software transactional memory for dynamically sizable shared data structures
    (Feb 5, 2008)
    See all 10 patents »

    Awards

    Awards

    • 2004 Goedel Prize for paper ``The Topological Structure of Asynchronous Computation''. - (Aug 23, 2005)
    • 2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for 1991 paper ``Wait-Free Synchronization'' - (Oct 1, 2003)


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