Arvind

The Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arvind was the developer of multithread computing, dataflow computers, and parallel languages. He created the dynamic dataflow model of computation. Between 1977 and 1992, he built sixteen Monsoon dataflow machines and associated software based on this model. Since 1997, he created Bluespec and related tools based on guarded atomic actions to synthesize digital hardware, thereby dramatically reducing the hardware design cost of embedded systems. He founded Sandburst, a fabless semiconductor company (2000) and Bluespec Inc. (2003). Arvind was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and recipient of its Charles Babbage Outstanding Scientist Award (1994) and Harry Goode Memorial Award (2012). He was also a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, and received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota (2008).