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Biographical Sketch

Professor Wulf is on leave for the 96-97 academic year to serve as President of the National Academy of Engineering.

Research

Earlier research activities include: the design of Bliss, a systems-implementation language adopted by DEC; the Bliss/11 compiler, an early and effective optimizing compiler; architectural design of the DEC PDP-11, a highly successful minicomputer; the design and construction of C.mmp, a 16 processor multiprocessor; design and construction of Hydra, one of the first operating systems to explore capability-based protection; the development of the PQCC, a technology for the automatic construction of optimizing compilers, and the design of WM, a novel pipelined processor that, for comparable gate counts and area, achieves four to six times the performance of contemporary designs.

Professor Wulf's recent research has been the design of scalable high performance memory systems, computer security, and hardware-software co-design.

Selected Publications

• Hydra/C.mmp: An Experimental Computer System, W. A. Wulf, R. Levin, and S. P. Harbison, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1980.

• Fundamental Structures of Computer Science, W. A. Wulf, M. Shaw, P. M. Hilfinger, and L. Flon, Addison-Wesley, 1980.

• "Access Ordering: Achieving Optimal Effective Memory Bandwidth," S. Moyer and W. Wulf, Journal of Complexity, June 1994.

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