Maurice Herlihy

Maurice Herlihy has an AB in Mathematics from Harvard University, and a PhD in Computer Science from MIT. He is currently the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He has served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University and the staff of DEC Cambridge Research Lab. He is the recipient of the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, the 2004 G]odel Prize in theoretical computer science, the 2008 ISCA influential paper award, the 2012 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize, and the...See more

Maurice Herlihy has an AB in Mathematics from Harvard University, and a PhD in Computer Science from MIT. He is currently the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He has served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University and the staff of DEC Cambridge Research Lab. He is the recipient of the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, the 2004 G]odel Prize in theoretical computer science, the 2008 ISCA influential paper award, the 2012 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize, and the 2013 Wallace McDowell award. He received a 2012 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Lecturing Fellowship, and he is a fellow of the ACM, as well as a fellow of theNational Academy of Inventors, theNational Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on various aspects of parallel and distributed computing, including linearizability, lock-free and wait-free synchronization, transactional memory, concurrent data structures, and blockchain. See less