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IBM Journal of Research and Development  
Volume 43, Number 4, 1999
Digital multimedia technology
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Evaluation of branch-prediction methods on traces from commercial applications - Author bios

by R. B. Hilgendorf, G. J. Heim and W. Rosenstiel

Biographical sketches of authors

Rolf B. Hilgendorf   IBM Entwicklung GmbH, Boeblingen, Germany (hilgendo@de.ibm.com). Dr. Hilgendorf received his diploma in electrical engineering from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 1977. In 1979 he joined IBM at the Scientific Center, Haifa, Israel, working on signal and image processing projects. Since 1986 he has been with the IBM Laboratory in Boeblingen, Germany, working in S/390 logic design. His current interests include computer microarchitecture, especially branch- and value-prediction algorithms, and performance modeling. He is a member of the IEEE.

Gerald J. Heim   Wilhelm Schickard-Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany (heim@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de). Mr. Heim received his diploma in computer science from the University of Tuebingen, Germany, in 1996. Since then he has worked as a research scientist in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut. His research interests include CPU and computer architecture as well as computer and performance modeling.

Wolfgang Rosenstiel   Wilhelm Schickard-Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. Dr. Rosenstiel received his diploma and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1980 and 1984, respectively. Since 1990 he has been Professor for Informatics (Computer Engineering) at the University of Tuebingen and Director of the Department of System Design in Microelectronics at FZI. His research interests include high-level synthesis, hardware/software codesign, computer architecture, parallel computing, and neural nets.