An Introduction to Parallel Programming

K. Mani Chandy, California Institute of TechnologyK. Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He is the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989. Dr. Chandy got his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering with a thesis in Operations Research. He got a Masters from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Dr. Chandy has worked for Honeywell and IBM. From 1970 to 1989, he was in the Computer Science Department of the University of Texas at Austin, serving as chair in 1978-79 and 1983-85. He has served as a consultant to a number of companies including IBM and Bell Labs. Dr. Chandy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communication in 1987 and the A.A. Michelson Award from the Computer Measurement Group in 1985. Dr. Chandy does research in distributed computing. He has published three books and over a hundred papers on distributed computing, verification of concurrent programs, parallel programming languages and performance models of computing and communication systems.

Stephen Taylor, California Institute of Technology