Bill Dally

William J. Dally is an American computer engineer. He is a professor at Stanford University.

Dally studied electrical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor 's degree, earned a master's degree at Stanford University and in 1986 at Caltech with Charles L. Seitz doctorate (A VLSI Architecture for Concurrent Data Structures ). He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before 1997 he was professor at Stanford, where he was temporarily from 2005 Board of computer science faculty.

He was also involved in the design of the 32- bit microprocessor BELLMAC32 the Bell Laboratories and designed the MARS hardware accelerator.

Dally worked with various computer companies, as Cray Research since 1989 and Velio Communications, whose Chief Technology Officer until its acquisition in 2003, he was by LSI Logic in 1999. He was founder of Stream Processors 2004 Inc. in Sunnyvale, which existed until 2009 and digital signal processors designed. In 2009 he was chief scientist at Nvidia.

In 2004 he received the Seymour Cray Award, the 2010 Eckert - Mauchly Award and the 2000 Maurice Wilkes Award from the ACM. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ).

Writings

• With John W. Poulton, Digital Systems Engineering, Cambridge University Press 1998
• With Curtis Harting Digital Design, a systems approach, Cambridge University Press 2012
• Brian Towles Principles and Practice of Interconnection Networks, Morgan Kaufman 2004
• A VLSI Architecture for concurrent data structures, Kluwer 1987