Bob Rau

Bantwal Ramakrishna "Bob" Rau ( * 1951, † 10 December 2002 in Los Altos, California ) was a native of India American computer engineer.

Rau studied electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras with a Bachelor 's degree and at Stanford University with a master's degree and doctorate.

Rau was with Wei Yen, David Yen, Ross Towle and Arun Kumar in 1984 one of the founders of Cydrome in San José, a computer company that was a pioneer in the use of Very Long Instruction Word ( VLIW ) processor in the design. The company was shortly after the presentation of their processor 1988 ( Cydra 5 mini - supercomputer ) is closed, but the technology found in the Itanium processors from Hewlett-Packard and Intel (from 2000) use. Rau was the main architect of the processor. In 1989 he went to Hewlett -Packard, where for the development of VLIW techniques and parallel processing of instructions ( in hardware and associated compilers ) on. He led the Compiler and Architecture Research Program ( CAR), developed in 1998, the EPIC ( Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing ) compiler technology with the research compiler Elcor. He led in the 1990s and the program PICO (Program In, Chip Out), the automated development of applications (hardware and associated compiler ) to customer specification pursued.

In addition to his tenure at HP, he was Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He died of cancer.

In 2002 he received the Eckert - Mauchly Award. He was IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.