Harald Prokop

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Harald Prokop, a German computer scientist, since 2012 CTO at LevelUp , 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, 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 and the development of the chess program CilkChess. 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

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 MIT homepage
 * Harald Prokop's ICGA Tournaments
 * Harald Prokop | LinkedIn

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