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CSE Alumnus Arvind to Receive University’s Highest Award

September 19, 2008

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The University of Minnesota has selected CSE alumnus Arvind to receive its Outstanding Achievement Award. The award is the highest nondegree award conferred upon distinguished alumni by the University. The award recognizes graduates of the University who have attained unusual distinction in their chosen fields.

Arvind is the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). Arvind's research interests are synthesis and verification of large digital systems described using Guarded Atomic Actions; and Memory Models and Cache Coherence Protocols for parallel architectures and languages.

Arvind will receive his award in a special ceremony Friday, September 26, 2008. Following the ceremony, he will present his talk Mobile Phones and Multicores: Programming Nightmare or Architectural Renaissance from 1:30-2:30pm in 101 Walter Library.