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Robert D. Blumofe, an American computer scientist and programmer, Executive Vice President, Platform und General Manager, Enterprise Division at Akamai Technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT under Charles Leiserson, and was co-author of MIT's first Cilk-Chess program, Star Socrates.

=Quotes= Chris Joerg's and Bradley Kuszmaul's acknowledgments in Massively Parallel Chess on *Socrates : Charles E. Leiserson, Robert D. Blumofe, Yuli Zhou, and Michael Halbherr all contributed to making the chess program work and to developing the underlying parallel technology used in *Socrates. Don Dailey and Larry Kaufman of Heuristic Software provided the serial program, Socrates, on which our parallel program is based, and Don worked many hours to help us get our parallel program working. Hans Berliner and Chris McConnell of CMU provided the serial version of Hitech that we first used as a testbed to develop our ideas for parallel game tree search.

=Selected Publications=

1990 ...

 * Robert Blumofe (1992). Managing Storage for Multithreaded Computations. Masters Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, pdf
 * Robert Blumofe, Charles Leiserson (1993). Space-efficient scheduling of multithreaded computations. STOC 93
 * Eric Brewer, Robert Blumofe (1994). Strata: A Multi-Layer Communications Library. Technical Report, MIT Laboratory for  Computer  Science, pdf

1995 ...

 * Robert Blumofe (1995). Executing Multithreaded Programs Efficiently. Ph.D. thesis, MIT, pdf
 * 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), pdf
 * Robert Blumofe, Phil Lisiecki (1996). Adaptive and Reliable Parallel Computing on Networks of Workstations. Proceedings of the USENIX 1997 Annual Technical Conference on UNIX and Advanced Computing Systems, Anaheim, California, pdf
 * Robert Blumofe, Charles Leiserson (1999). Scheduling Multithreaded Computations by Work Stealing. Journal of the ACM, September, 1999, pdf

=External Links=
 * Robert Blumofe - Executive Vice President, Platform und General Manager, Enterprise Division at Akamai
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Robert Blumofe
 * Robert Blumofe | LinkedIn

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