Edward S. Davidson

Edward Steinberg Davidson (* December 27, 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American computer engineer.

Davidson studied mathematics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and Communication Studies at the University of Michigan with a master's degree in 1962. Afterwards he worked until 1965 as an engineer at Honeywell in logic design. He received his doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign in electrical engineering in 1968, 1968, as a professor at Stanford University and in 1973 at the University of Illinois as a professor. In 1988 he became a professor at the University of Michigan, where until 1990 he was head of the computer science faculty in 1988, from 1994 to 1997, the Center for Parallel Computing launched in 2000 and retired.

He led the hardware development of the Cedar parallel computer at the Supercomputer Center at the University of Illinois from 1984 to 1987. Earlier he designed with students in 1976 a symmetric multiprocessor system with 8 processors. He made ​​contributions to the design of pipeline architectures ( Reservation Table method ) and software pipelining.

As a computer architect, he worked for Honeywell, Hewlett -Packard and IBM, and was a consultant with DEC and various U.S. government agencies. 2000 he received the Eckert - Mauchly Award and the 1992 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award from the IEEE. He is IEEE Fellow and led from 1979 to 1983, the Computer Architecture Department ( SIGARCH ) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ).

His PhD is one of Joel Emer.