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Nir Shavit

Dr. Nir Shavit
Senior Staff Engineer
Scalable Synchronization Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories


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Burlington, MA 01803

Nir Shavit is a researcher for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working in the Scalable Synchronization Research Group.

He was a postdoctoral researcher at IBM Almaden, Stanford, and MIT, visiting faculty at MIT, and a faculty member in the school of computer science at Tel-Aviv University. His research interests include theoretical and practical aspects of synchronization and coordination, ranging from tightly coupled multiprocessors to computer networks.

Education:

* PhD Computer Science 1990, Hebrew University in Jerusalem * MS Computer Science 1986, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Technical Reports

  		• Dynamic-Sized Nonblocking Work Stealing Deque, A
    By: Danny Hendler, Yossi Lev, Mark Moir and Nir Shavit
    Report Number: TR-2005-144
    Nov 1, 2005
  		• Transient Blocking Synchronization
    By: Ori Shalev and Nir Shavit
    Report Number: TR-2005-132
    May 1, 2005

    Latest Sun Patents

  		• Concurrent extensible cuckoo hashing
    (Feb 2, 2010)
  		• Work stealing queues for parallel garbage collection
    (Dec 29, 2009)
  		• Methods and apparatus to implement parallel transactions
    (Dec 29, 2009)
  		• Maintaining a double-ended queue in a contiguous array with concurrent non-blocking insert and remove operations using a double compare-and-swap primitive
    (May 26, 2009)
  		• Controlling contention via transactional timers among conflicting transactions issued by processors operating in insistent or polite mode
    (Feb 24, 2009)
    See all 21 patents »

    Awards

    Awards

    • Godel Prize (for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science) for "The Topological Structure of Asynchronous Computability" - (May 10, 2004)


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