He wrote over 200 articles and book chapters, plus numerous conference addresses.[2] Kennedy was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990. He was named a Fellow of the AAAS in 1994 and of the ACM and IEEE in 1995. In recognition of his achievements in compilation for high performance computer systems, he was honored as the recipient of the 1995 W. W. McDowell Award, the highest research award of the IEEE Computer Society. From 1997 to 1999, he served as co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). In 1999, he was named recipient of the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award, the third time this award was given. In 2005, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Kennedy died of pancreatic cancer in Houston at the age of 61.[3] At the time of his death he was the John and Ann Doerr University Professor in the department of Computer Science at Rice and the Director of the Center for High Performance Software Research (HiPerSoft). As of November 20, 2006, he had directed the PhD dissertations of 38 graduate students and masters theses for 8 students.[2]
Kennedy's last publication was The rise and fall of High Performance Fortran: an historical object lesson,[4] in which Kennedy discussed the general failure of the High Performance Fortran language which he had championed.
Allen, Randy; Kennedy, Ken (2002). Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN1-55860-286-0.
kennedy, computer, scientist, kennedy, august, 1945, february, 2007, american, computer, scientist, professor, rice, university, founding, chairman, rice, computer, science, department, kennedyken, kennedy, 2001, photo, born, 1945, august, 1945diedfebruary, 20. Ken Kennedy August 12 1945 February 7 2007 was an American computer scientist and professor at Rice University He was the founding chairman of Rice s Computer Science Department 1 2 Ken KennedyKen Kennedy 2001 photo Born 1945 08 12 August 12 1945DiedFebruary 7 2007 2007 02 07 aged 61 Houston TexasNationalityAmericanAlma materRice UniversityNew York UniversityScientific careerFieldsComputer sciencesInstitutionsRice UniversityDoctoral advisorJacob T SchwartzDoctoral studentsMary Hall Kathryn S McKinley Hausi A MullerKennedy directed the construction of several substantial software systems for programming parallel computers including an automatic vectorizer for Fortran 77 an integrated scientific programming environment compilers for Fortran 90 and High Performance Fortran and a compilation system for domain languages based on the numerical computing environment MATLAB He wrote over 200 articles and book chapters plus numerous conference addresses 2 Kennedy was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 He was named a Fellow of the AAAS in 1994 and of the ACM and IEEE in 1995 In recognition of his achievements in compilation for high performance computer systems he was honored as the recipient of the 1995 W W McDowell Award the highest research award of the IEEE Computer Society From 1997 to 1999 he served as co chair of the President s Information Technology Advisory Committee PITAC In 1999 he was named recipient of the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award the third time this award was given In 2005 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Kennedy died of pancreatic cancer in Houston at the age of 61 3 At the time of his death he was the John and Ann Doerr University Professor in the department of Computer Science at Rice and the Director of the Center for High Performance Software Research HiPerSoft As of November 20 2006 he had directed the PhD dissertations of 38 graduate students and masters theses for 8 students 2 Kennedy s last publication was The rise and fall of High Performance Fortran an historical object lesson 4 in which Kennedy discussed the general failure of the High Performance Fortran language which he had championed On November 18 2009 the ACM and IEEE awarded the first Ken Kennedy CS Award 5 to Francine Berman of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The award was given at the ACM IEEE Supercomputing or SC 09 conference 6 Bibliography EditAllen Randy Kennedy Ken 2002 Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures A Dependence based Approach San Francisco Morgan Kaufmann Publishers ISBN 1 55860 286 0 References Edit cs rice edu Ken Kennedy CV a b c Rice University Ken Kennedy home page Markoff John February 9 2007 Obituary Ken Kennedy 61 a Pioneer of Computer Software Dies New York Times Retrieved February 9 2007 The rise and fall of High Performance Fortran an historical object lesson ACM IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award 2009 Archived from the original on 2009 03 21 Retrieved 2009 11 18 Kennedy Award Recipient Francine Berman Archived from the original on 2011 07 28 Retrieved 2009 11 18 External links EditKen Kennedy s homepage at Rice University s Computer Science Department Ken Kennedy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project List of McDowell Award recipients Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ken Kennedy computer scientist amp oldid 1154496426, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
