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Michael Scott
Company: University of Rochester
Michael L. Scott is the Arthur Gould Yates Professor of Engineering and incoming Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY, USA. A Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, he is best known for work in synchronization and concurrent data structures, in recognition of which he shared the 2006 SIGACT/SIGOPS Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize. He is the author or co-author of more than 170 refereed publications, including Programming Language Pragmatics (4th ed., Morgan Kauffman, 2016), a textbook in use at more than 200 schools around the world, and Shared Memory Synchronization (Morgan & Claypool, 2013), a standard reference in the field. He received the University of Rochester's Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching in 2001 and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2018. His textbook on programming language design and implementation (Programming Language Pragmatics, 4th ed., Morgan Kauffman, 2016) is used at more than 200 universities around the world.
In the java.util.concurrent library, he is a co-inventor of the ConcurrentLinkedQueue, Exchanger, and SynchronousQueue classes.
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Safe user-level sharing of memory-mapped resources
Michael Scott
Company: University of Rochester