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IBM Journal of Research and Development
Exploratory Systems Research   Volume 50, Number 2/3, 2006
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Braids and fibers: Language constructs with architectural support for adaptive responses to memory latencies - Author Bios

 by D. F. Bacon
and X. Shen
Biographical sketches of authors

David F. Bacon IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (bacon@us.ibm.com). Dr. Bacon is a Research Staff Member at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He leads the Metronome project, which produced the first hard real-time garbage collection system. His algorithms are included in most compilers and runtime systems for modern object-oriented languages, and his work on thin locks was selected as one of the most influential contributions in the twenty years of the Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference. Dr. Bacon received his A.B. degree from Columbia University and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. His recent work focuses on high-level real-time programming, embedded systems, programming language design, and computer architecture. He holds six patents. Dr. Bacon is a member of the IEEE and the ACM, for which he is on the governing boards of the ACM Special Interest Group for Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED).

Xiaowei Shen IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (xwshen@us.ibm.com). Dr. Shen is a Research Staff Member at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he manages the Scalable Server Network and Memory Systems Department. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include computer architectures, compilers, networks, software–hardware co-design, and many aspects of parallel and distributed computing. His recent work focuses on commercially viable high-productivity computing systems, symmetric multiprocessing systems, and clusters of low-end servers. Dr. Shen has two issued patents and 15 pending patents in computer architecture and systems.


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