Charles E. Leiserson

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Education:

School Degree Date
Yale University B.S. (cum laude) May 1975
Carnegie-Mellon University Ph.D December 1981

MIT Appointments:

Rank Beginning Ending
Assistant Professor January 1981 June 1984
Associate Professor July 1984 June 1988
Associate Professor with Tenure July 1988 June f1992
Full Professor July 1992 present

Other Related Experience (most recent):

Employer Position Beginning Ending
Max Planck Institute für Informatik Fachbeirat (Visiting Committee) Sept. 1992 present
Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon Visiting Professor June 1993 July 1993
National University of Singapore Shaw Visiting Professor August 1995 August 1996
Akamai Technologies Director of System Architecture June 1999 present

Consulting & Patents (partial list):

Firm Beginning Ending
National University of Singapore, Adjunct Professor Sept. 1996 present
NKK Corporation March 1997 March 1997
Pratt & Whitney May 1997 Dec. 1999
EMC2 Corporation June 1998 Dec. 1999
Akamai Technologies June 1999 present

H. T. Kung and Charles E. Leiserson, "Systolic array apparatus for matrix computations,''  U.S. Patent 494,659, March 29, 1984.

Thomas H. Cormen and Charles E. Leiserson, "A message merging device,'' U.S. Patent 4,922,246, May 1, 1990.

Robert C. Zak, Charles E. Leiserson, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Shaw­Wen Yang, W. Daniel Hillis, David C. Douglas, and David Potter, "Parallel computer system including arrangement for transferring messages from a source processor to selected ones of a plurality of destination processors and combining responses,'' U.S. Patent 5,265,207, November 23, 1993.

Charles E. Leiserson, Robert C. Zak, W. Daniel, Hillis, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Jeffrey V. Hill, "Parallel computer system including request distribution network for distributing processing requests to selected sets of processors in parallel,'' U.S. Patent 5,388,214, February 7, 1995.

Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Charles E. Leiserson, Shaw­Wen Yang, Carl R. Feynman, W. Daniel Hillis, David Wells, Cynthia J. Spiller, "Parallel computer system including arrangement for quickly draining messages from message router,'' U. S. Patent 5,390,298, February 14, 1995.

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