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Harold S. Stone

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Harold Stuart Stone (born August 10, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American computer scientist specializing in parallel computer architecture. He is an IEEE Fellow, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994).[1]

Education and career

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Stone obtained a bachelor in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 1960,[citation needed] and his masters and PhD in 1961 and 1963 at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] His PhD advisors were Robert B. Ash and Eugene Wong.[3] He was a faculty member at Stanford University from 1968 until 1974, when he moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. From 1984 onwards was he a researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and later as a NEC Fellow at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey.[citation needed]

Books

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Stone's books include:

  • High Performance Computer Architecture, Addison-Wesley 1987, 2. Edition 1993
  • Introduction to Computer Architecture, 1975, 2. Edition, Chicago: Science Research Associates 1980
  • Introduction to Computer Organization and Data Structures, McGraw Hill 1971
  • Discrete mathematical structures and their applications, Chicago: Science Research Associates 1973
  • Microcomputer Interfacing, Addison-Wesley 1982
  • with Daniel Siewiorek Introduction to computer organization and data structures, PDP-11 edition, McGraw Hill 1975

Recognition

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Stone received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award in 1992, the Taylor L. Booth Award in 1999, and the Charles Babbage Award in 1991.[2] He is IEEE Fellow[citation needed] and Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1993).[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Dr. Harold Stone". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  2. ^ a b c "Harold S. Stone", Award recipients, IEEE Computer Society, retrieved 2020-11-10
  3. ^ "Harold Stone". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 16 June 2022.