Jean-Loup Baer

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Jean-Loup Baer
Awards ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions University of Washington
Doctoral advisor Gerald Estrin
Doctoral students Carla Ellis
Website homes.cs.washington.edu/~baer/

Jean-Loup Baer is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington.

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Biography

Jean-Loup Baer received a Diplome d'Ingénieur in Electrical Engineering and the Doctorat 3e cycle in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble (France) and a Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1968 under the supervision of Gerald Estrin. [1]

Awards and honors

Baer was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1992 "for contributions to the design and analysis of parallel computer systems". [2] In 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery named him an ACM Fellow "for contributions to the design and evaluation of parallel processing systems, in particular in the areas of cache coherence protocols and techniques to tolerate memory latency". [3]

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References

  1. Jean-Loup Baer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "IEEE Fellows directory". IEEE. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  3. "ACM Fellows page for Jean-Loup Baer" . Retrieved 2012-12-01.