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Bruce Jacob: A Short Bio

(Does this really deserve its own webpage?)
(I think not, but this is better than splashing it all over the front page, no?)
(Good point.)

Current as of 2016

Bruce Jacob is a Full Professor and former Director of Computer Engineering in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is honored as a Keystone Professor in the University's Clark School of Engineering. He received his Ars Baccalaureate, cum laude, in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1988, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He currently designs computer-system architectures and computer memory-system architectures for both industry and government, national and international, focusing on highly efficient designs at the High-Performance Computing level, as well as at the high-performance embedded-systems level. For instance, he helped Micron design their new Hybrid Memory Cube DRAM architecture, he redesigned Cray's memory controller for their Black Widow memory system, he helped Northrop Grumman design a memory-system interconnect for their experimental ultra-low-power datacenter, he designed a high-performance memory system for the 1024-core Teraflux chip funded by the European Commission, and he currently collaborates with researchers at the Department of Energy on the design of their next-generation supercomputers.

In recognition of Prof. Jacob's research program, he has been honored several times as a University of Maryland "Rainmaker." His work in advanced DRAM architectures at Maryland is the first comparative evaluation of today's memory technologies, and he received the prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his early work in that area. Honors for his teaching include the departmental George Corcoran Award, the University of Maryland Award for Teaching Excellence, and his 2006 induction as a Clark School of Engineering Keystone Professor. He has published over 70 papers on a wide range of topics, including computer architecture and memory systems, low-power embedded systems, electromagnetic interference and circuit integrity, distributed computing, astrophysics, and algorithmic composition. His book on computer memory systems (Jacob, Ng, and Wang: Memory Systems -- Cache, DRAM, Disk, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Fall 2007) is the authoritative reference on the topic and is used world-wide in both industry and academia.