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`Dennis Allison
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`Experienced computer systems engineer, computer scientist, software engineer, manager,
`strategic planner, and author. Broad based skills in many areas of computer science and
`engineering including computer architecture, VLSI design, operating systems, distributed
`systems, programming language design, optimizing compilers, just-in-time compilers, formal
`theory, cryptography, emergent systems and modeling, artificial intelligence, natural language
`processing, algorithmic game theory, economic and financial modeling, and analysis of
`algorithms. Broad knowledge of the scientific literature. Experienced as litigation consultant
`and expert witness.
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`Education
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` 1961 A.B. University of California, Berkeley. Physics.
` 1974 University of California Santa Cruz, Short Course in Compiler Design.
` 1986
`Nato Summer School on Distributed Systems.
` 1996 Advanced Tutorial on Financial Cryptography
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`History
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`1972- Independent Consultant.
`Diverse client base with an equally diverse project base including programming language design
`and implementation, operating systems design, distributed system architectures, microprocessor
`architecture, memory management systems architecture, DSP architecture, architectural
`evaluation, benchmark studies and comparative evaluation, network hosted micro-payment
`systems design, electronic money systems design, financial cryptography, multimedia education
`curriculum development, web site design, media encryption risk evaluation, special purpose
`client server system design reviews, technical writing and review, patent preparation and prior
`art search, and litigation support. Current consulting projects include support systems for drug
`development, social networking, emerging cellular telephone systems, computer gaming, reliable
`computing, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 support tools, programming language compilation for
`distributed sensor networks, website framework development, and hardware acceleration in
`monolithic application-oriented supercomputer systems. Current research includes restructuring
`classical economic theory for use in modeling, modeling emergent systems, decision support,
`programming parallel systems, exploring the conceptual framework of programming languages,
`exploring mobile enterprise architectures for investment banking and venture finance, defining
`the architecture for large scale, energy efficient server clusters, architecture and software support
`for embedded low-power embedded computers, architecture of accelerators for high performance
`computing clusters using FPGAs and GPGPUs, concurrent programming languages and parallel
`systems, artificial intelligence, neuroscience based interfaces, very high speed computing, the
`semantic web, and design tools for FPGAs.
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`1975- Lecturer, Computer Systems Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford
`University.
`Taught graduate and upper division courses in Computer Architecture, Advanced Computer
`Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Projects, Computer Programming. Advised
`students. Recreated the weekly EE380 Colloquium and moved it to a web-hosted and delivered
`course. Currently EE380, the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, presents 30 speakers
`a year. The lectures are videotaped, webcast live, archived for on-demand viewing, and
`distributed through non-traditional channels such as YouTube and iTunes.
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`2008- Member, Advisory Board, Maxeler Technologies. Senior Advisor. Maxeler
`builds sells acceleration for High Performance Computing and builds FPGA based hardware and
`software for high-end server clusters and low latency mission critical systems.
`2013-
`Acting-CTO and Advisor, DISCERN. DISCERN provides decision support for
`financial
`services analysts using both structured and unstructured information and data intensive analysis
`tools.
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`2000- Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Exchange.
`SVIPX develops, acquires, and markets intellectual property. Currently SVIPX is inactive.
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`1993-1998 Member, Board of Directors, ImaginOn Corporation.
`ImaginOn designs and markets multimedia and web-enabled software products.
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`1993-1999 Member, Advisory Board, PPM Corporation.
`PPM designs of location enabled personal telecommunications devices and supporting software
`technology.
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`1993- Editorial Advisor, Addison-Wesley (Pearson).
`Editorial advisor to editors in both Academic and Professional Reference groups.
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`Senior Computer Architect and member of the founding team, Hal Computer
`1990-1992
`Systems. Hal Computer Systems designed and built a high performance, superscalar 64-bit
`SPARC compatible microprocessor and memory management unit. Hal was acquired by Fujitsu.
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`Series advisor, Prentice Hall Incorporated.
`1987-1993
`Founded and administrated the Innovative Technology book series and provided general advice
`to editors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering.
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`Series Advisor, CBS Educational Publishing.
`1975-1987
`Visiting Research Scientist, Research Center of Crete.
`1985
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`1983-1987 Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Computer Society. (2 Terms)
`1984-1985
`Board Member, Promix Corporation.
`1983-1985
`Board Member, Forefront Corporation.
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`1978-1985 Advisory Board, Logitech Corporation.
`1974-1985
`Board Member, InfoSci Corporation.
`1982-1984
`Founder and Technical Advisory Board Member, Koala Corporation.
`1972-1983
`Founder, Board Chairman, President, People's Computer Corporation.
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`PCC was a not-for-profit corporation which popularized personal
`published numerous journals including Dr. Dobb's Journal.
`computing. PCC
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`1974-1976
`Lecturer, Medical Information Systems, University of California, San
`Francisco.
`Founder and Member of Technical Staff, Polymorphic Corporation.
`1970-1972
`Physicist, SRI International (aka Stanford Research Institute) Radio
`1962-1972
`Physics Laboratory.
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`Professional Societies
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`Conference Committee, Challenging Turing Conference. Scheduled for September 2012,
`this conference will explore the work of Alan Turing and its impact on the occasion of his
`100th year.
`Long time active member of both IEEE and ACM. Served on numerous boards and
`committees. Past multi-term member of the IEEE Computer Society Governing Board.
`Active organizer and frequent chair for a variety of conferences, workshops, and
`meetings. Have served as program chair, general chair, program committee member, or
`advisory board member for a variety of meetings including: Nicograph Japan,
`USA/Japan Computer Conference, NCC, COMPCON, Asilomar Microprocessor
`Workshop, Wescon/MiniMicro, Groupware, Genetic Algorithms, Microprocessor Forum,
`Microsystems Forum.
`Editor or Editorial Board Positions:
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`Microprocessor Report, IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Byte,
`Recreational Computing, People's Computing, PCC Newspaper.
`Papers and Technical Reports: Over fifty published papers, and technical reports.
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`Recent Publications
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`SPARC International, The SPARC Architecture Manual Version 9, Prentice Hall, 1994.
`Section editor and contributor.
`Hoxey, Steve., IBM PowerPC Compiler Writers Guide. IBM, 1996. Contributing editor.
`Susanne Rodriguez, The Natalie Barney Pages. Webmaster.
`PCC Alumni Web Site, http://www.svipx.com/pcc. Historical website about the
`People's Computer Company.
`Adele Goldberg, Dennis Allison. 2002: A Zope Odyssey. OSCON 2003, Portland OR.
`Michael Flynn, Dennis Allison, Oskar Mencer, Rob Diamond. Monolithic
`Supercomputing: what it is, why it's important, and how to design for it. Tutorial given at
`the International Conference on Supercomputing, (Tsucaba, Japan, June 1-4, 2010).
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