Harald Prokop
Harald Prokop [1]
Harald Prokop,
a German computer scientist, since 2012 CTO at LevelUp [2], and before senior vice president of engineering at Akamai.
Harald Prokop received an undergraduate degree in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, and a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT [3], where his advisor was Charles Leiserson.
He researched and published on cache-oblivious algorithms, co-authored the paper on using De Bruijn sequences for bitscan purposes,
and was involved in the Cilk project [4] and the development of the chess program CilkChess [5]. During the WCCC 1999 in Paderborn, while CilkChess was in the hand of Charles Leiserson and Don Dailey, Harald Prokop served as operator of Mini.
Selected Publications
1998 ...
- Charles Leiserson, Harald Prokop (1998). A Minicourse on Multithreaded Programming. pdf
- Charles Leiserson, Harald Prokop, Keith H. Randall (1998). Using de Bruijn Sequences to Index a 1 in a Computer Word. pdf reprint
- Matteo Frigo, Charles Leiserson, Harald Prokop, Sridhar Ramachandran (1999). Cache-Oblivious Algorithms. FOCS 99
- Harald Prokop (1999). Cache-Oblivious Algorithms. Masters thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, pdf [8]
2010 ...
- Matteo Frigo, Charles Leiserson, Harald Prokop, Sridhar Ramachandran (2012). Cache-Oblivious Algorithms. ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Vol. 8, No. 1, pdf
External Links
- Harald Prokop from Wikipedia
- Harald Prokop MIT homepage
- Harald Prokop's ICGA Tournaments
- Harald Prokop | LinkedIn
