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February 22, 2008
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) elected CSE Alumnus Arvind (M.S. '72, Ph.D '73) to be one of its new members this month. This national honor is the highest professional designation for an engineer. Arvind is the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Since graduating from the University of Minnesota, he has become widely successful in the academic and business worlds, and is one of the most notable pioneers and practitioners in the computer science field.
Arvind is a trailblazer in several important fields in computer science and engineering, especially in the field of computer architectures. The most notable is his pioneer work on dynamic dataflow architectures and the functional programming language, id, designed specifically for dataflow computer architectures in 1980’s and 1990’s. He has also done influential work in formal methods that include semantics, lambda calculus, and term rewriting systems.
From 1986-1992, Arvind served as the Chief Technical Advisor for the United Nations, sponsoring a Knowledge Based Computer Systems project in India. Arvind also co-founded two highly successful companies based on his more recent work on hardware synthesis and verification, Sandburst – acquired by the Broadcom Corporation in 2006 and Bluespec Inc. In addition to these accomplishments, Arvind served on many editorial boards of major technical journals and chaired program committees for numerous professional conferences and associations. He also co-authored a book in 2001, entitled Implicit Parallel Programming in pH.
Arvind’s stellar contributions to the field of computer science have already resulted in many other prestigious honors, such as both the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow distinction, the IEEE - Charles Babbage Outstanding Scientist Award, the University of Minnesota Computer Science and Engineering department’s Distinguished Alumni Award, and the I.I.T. Kanpur - Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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