Susan_J._Eggers

Susan J. Eggers

Susan J. Eggers

American computer scientist

Susan J. Eggers is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computer architecture and compilers.

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"Eggers is best known for her foundational work in developing and helping to commercialize simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors, one of the most important advancements in computer architecture in the past 30 years. In the mid-1990s, Moore's Law was in full swing and, while computer engineers were finding ways to fit up to 1 billion transistors on a computer chip, the increase in logic and memory alone did not result in significant performance gains. Eggers was among those who argued that increasing parallelism, or a computer's ability to perform many calculations or processes concurrently, was the best way to realize performance gains."[1](IEEE Computer Society Eckert-Mauchly Award Announcement)

In 2006, Eggers was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the design and evaluation of advanced processor architectures.

Biography

Eggers received a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1965. She received a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.

She then joined the Department of Computer Science at University of Washington in 1989 and is now an Emeritus Professor there.

Awards

Eggers has several notable awards including:

References

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    "ACM SIGARCH/IEEE-CS TCCA Influential ISCA Paper Award". SIGARCH. ACM. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
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