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'''Matteo Frigo''',<br/>
an Italian computer scientist and software architect at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation Oracle], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston Boston area]. Matteo Frigo received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] under [[Charles Leiserson]],
where he was member of the teams in developing [[Star Socrates|*Socrates]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6cd6ed 8th World Computer Chess Championship] available as [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/3-1%20and%203-2%20and%203-3%20and%204-3.1995_WCCC/1995%20WCCC.062303014.sm.pdf pdf reprint] Courtesy of [[Monroe Newborn]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> and the [[CilkchessCilkChess]] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=37 Matteo Frigo's ICGA Tournaments]</ref> computer chess programs.
His research spans around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing parallel computing], [[SIMD and SWAR Techniques|SIMD]] parallelism, on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform FFT] where he along with [[Mathematician#SGJohnson|Steven G. Johnson]] co-developed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFTW FFTW], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processing DSP], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm cache-oblivious algorithms], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_computation theory of computation].
In 2007 Matteo Frigo co-founded ''Cilk Arts, Inc.'', a start-up developing [[Cilk]] technology for multi-core computing applications, which was acquired by [[Intel]] in August 2009 <ref>[http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/intel-acquires-cilk-technology/218900367 Intel Acquires Cilk++ Technology], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dobb%27s_Journal Dr. Dobb's], August 01, 2009</ref> <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk#Intel_Cilk_Plus Intel Cilk Plus from Wikipedia]</ref>.
