CSAIL researcher Charles E. Leiserson was announced today as one of the winners of the 2013 Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, alongside his former PhD student Robert D. Blumofe, for contributions to robust parallel and distributed computing.
The ACM credits Blumofe and Leiserson for developing provably efficient randomized “work-stealing” scheduling algorithms and Cilk, a small but powerful programming-language extension for multithreaded computing.
Leiserson is a CSAIL researcher who heads the lab's Supertech Research Group, which investigates the technologies that support scalable computing, including hardware, software, and theory. He is coauthor of Introduction to Algorithms, the widely used algorithms textbook, and he has developed multiple courses on algorithms and parallel programming.
Leiserson was recognized with the first ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and was recently selected for the IEEE Computer Society’s 2014 Taylor L. Booth Award for his contributions to computer-science education. He is an ACM Fellow, an AAAS Fellow, and a senior member of both IEEE and SIAM.
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