Burton Jordan Smith

Technical Fellow. Contributed to various subdisciplines within the field of parallel computation, including high-performance parallel architectures, interprocessor communication networks, and parallel programming languages. Work on hardware multithreading began a powerful approach to computational concurrency, increasingly used in the design of microprocessors. Chief architect of both Tera Computer's MTA machine and Denelcor HEP. Recipient of the Eckert-Mauchly Award (1991) and the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award (2003). IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, National Academy of Engineering.