Computer lecture set April 24
Vol. 17, No. 28April 23, 1998

Computer lecture set April 24

Ken Kennedy, Ann and John Doerr Professor of Computational Engineering at Rice University, will speak at 2 p.m., Friday, April 24, in 205 Gore Hall.

Free and open to the public, Kennedy's talk, "The State of Programming Support Software for High Performance Computers," will focus on the achievements and failures of software technologies for programming support.

It also will explore the challenges that developers of programming support software will face and the principal technology areas that will be important in the next decade.

The talk will conclude with Kennedy's argument that these challenges cannot be met without a dramatic redesign of programming support systems.

Kennedy is the director of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation, an NSF Science and Technology Center, and cochair of the Presidential Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing.

He has published over 130 technical articles and supervised 32 doctoral dissertations on programming.

In 1990, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and received the 1995 W.W. McDowell Award, the highest research award of the IEEE Computer Society.

His talk, sponsored by the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS), is part of the CIS Distinguished Lecturer Series.

For more information, contact CIS at 831-2711.