Glen Culler

Glen Culler (* July 7, 1927 in Savonburg; † 3 May 2003) was an American mathematician and computer designers.

Life

Culler worked in the early 1950s as a programmer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, before he continued his studies from 1954. It was established in 1959 at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) at Magnus Hestenes doctorate in mathematics ( Polar decomposition and boundary value problems for matrix differential equations ). At UCLA, he came even with early attempts at contact ( Prof. Burton Fried) to develop symbolic mathematics programs. In 1959 he moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara ( UCSB ), where he continued the work continued in the development of the first interactive graphic computer systems for mathematical programming, the Culler - Fried system online. The program for symbolic mathematics called MOLSF ( Mathematically Oriented Language, single-precision, floating-point ), a text processing system COL. There was also a graphical representation with storage oscilloscopes from Tektronix. The development of the system was done with Burton Fried, exempted as Culler of UCSB as assistant director of the computer labs at Ramo - Woodridge (later TRW Inc.). The system was used at UCSB for the teaching of mathematics and the introduction in 1962 physicists like Richard Feynman and John Robert Schrieffer were invited to test the system.

Your system at UCSB was one of the four nodes of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet. 1969 exchanged the node UCSB and UCLA from a first data packet.

Culler was a professor at UCSB and director of the computer center. In 1969 he founded his own company Culler - Harrison ( later CHI and then Culler Scientific). The company has developed hardware for digital signal processing and was a pioneer in the later so-called Very Long Instruction Word ( VLIW ) architecture. One developed by Culler early 1970s systems was the supercomputer manufacturer floating-point system used (FPS AP120B 1976 ). Culler Scientific developed the VLIW architecture for further advanced Digital Signal Processors for Motorola.

2000 he received the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and the National Medal of Technology by the U.S. President.

His son Marc Culler is also a mathematician and his son David Culler computer science professor at Berkeley.