Krishna V. Palem receives 2008 IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award

The IEEE Computer Society presented its 2008 W. Wallace McDowell Award to Krishna V. Palem for his contributions to the algorithmic, compilation, and architectural foundations of embedded computing. The W. Wallace McDowell Award honors the outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, innovative contributions within the computing field. Professor Palem accepted his award at the Computer Society's 9 June 2010 awards ceremony in Denver, Colorado.

Krishna V. Palem is the Ken and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing at Rice University with appointments in Computer Science and in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests, focused on all aspects of embedded computing, include adaptive computing, algorithms, compilers, low-energy computing, and nanoelectronics. Palem founded one of the first academic laboratories dedicated to the field in 1994, at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science at NYU. His work at NYU led to the widely used TRIMARAN system.

For more information about Krishna V. Palem: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/palem
For more information about IEEE Computer Society Awards: http://www.computer.org/awards

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• Krishna V. Palem
• embedded computing
• adaptive computing
• algorithms
• compilers
• low-energy computing
• nanoelectronics
• TRIMARAN system