James Larus
| James Larus | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 15, 1958 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
James R. Larus (born September 15, 1958) is a computer scientist specializing in the fields of programming languages, compilers, and computer architecture. He is currently at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he is the Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC).
Before joining EPFL, Larus worked as a Principal Researcher in Microsoft Research, where he worked from 1998 until 2013. He was at one point the Director of Research and Strategy for Microsoft's eXtreme Computing Group (XCG) where he helped develop the Orleans cloud computing project. He was also one of the two co-leads on Microsoft's Singularity project.
Prior to working for Microsoft, James was an associate professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Computer Science department.
Larus graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1980 with an A.B. in Applied Mathematics. He got both a Masters and a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 1982 and 1989 respectively.
Larus is known for the creation of SPIM, a widely distributed MIPS simulator.
He has written many papers and has an h-index of 54. One of his best known papers is his paper on efficient path profiling.
He is also a co-author of the book 'Transactional Memory', published in 2007 by Morgan Claypool.
Larus was a Harvard College Scholar, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, and an ACM Fellow. He has also won numerous awards for his papers over the years.
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