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Christopher Frank (Chris) Joerg, an American computer scientist and chief systems achitect at Akamai Technologies. During the 90s, while affiliated with the Supercomputing Technologies Group at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Chris Joerg participated at the Cilk project and co-authored the chess programs *Socrates and Cilkchess. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 1996 under thesis supervisor Charles Leiserson.

=Selected Publications=
 * Chris Joerg, Bradley C. Kuszmaul (1994). Massively Parallel Chess. Third DIMACS Parallel Implementation Challenge, Rutgers University, pdf
 * Michael Halbherr, Yuli Zhou, Chris Joerg (1994). MIMD-Style Parallel Programming with Continuation-Passing Threads. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Massive Parallelism: Hardware, Software, and Applications
 * Robert Blumofe, Chris Joerg, Bradley Kuszmaul, Charles Leiserson, Keith H. Randall, Yuli Zhou (1995). Cilk: An Efficient Multithreaded Runtime System. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP) Santa Barbara, California Pg. 207–216, pdf
 * Chris Joerg (1996). The Cilk System for Parallel Multithreaded Computing. Ph. D. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, pdf

=External Links=
 * Chris Joerg | LinkedIn
 * Christopher F. Joerg's ICGA Tournaments

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