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'''Aaron Becker''',<br/>
an American mathematician, computer scientist and software engineer at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google Google Inc.] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View,_California Mountain View, California].
He holds a B.Sc. in computer science and mathematics from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College Harvey Mudd College] in 2004, and a Ph.D in computer science from [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] in 2012, where he was research assistant in the ''Parallel Programming Lab'' <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-becker-86093745/ Aaron Becker | LinkedIn]</ref>, working on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method finite element methods], a multiphase shared arrays library in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charm%2B%2B Charm++], adaptive [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface MPI], parallel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_space_search state space search] and compiler support for productive parallel programming <ref>[http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/people/aaronbecker Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker]</ref>.
Starting in 2009, he developed the chess engine [[Daydreamer]].
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/people/aaronbecker Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker]</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Becker:Aaron dblp: Aaron Becker] (mixed up with [https://sites.google.com/site/aabecker/home Aaron T. Becker], 2012 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, also from [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]])</ref>
==2008 ...==
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chakravorty:Sayantan Sayantan Chakravorty], [[Aaron Becker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wilmarth:Terry Terry Wilmarth], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2008'''). ''A Case Study in Tightly Coupled Multi-paradigm Parallel Programming''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/lcpc/lcpc2008.html LCPC 2008]
* [[Aaron Becker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/d/Dooley:Isaac Isaac Dooley], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2009'''). ''Flexible Hardware Mapping for Finite Element Simulations on Hybrid CPU / GPU Clusters''. [http://saahpc.ncsa.illinois.edu/09/ SAAHPC 2009]
* [[Aaron Becker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Miller:Phil Phil Miller], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2009'''). ''PGAS in the Message-Driven Execution Mode''. [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1809961 PGAS 2009] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitioned_global_address_space Partitioned global address space - Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Aaron Becker]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mfy5O-UAAAAJ&hl=en Ramprasad Venkataraman], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2009'''). ''Patterns for Overlapping Communication and Computation''. [http://softwareengineering.vazexqi.com/2009/06/02/paraplop09-first-workshop-on-parallel-programming-patterns.html ParaPLoP 2009]
==2010 ...==
* [[Aaron Becker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/z/Zheng:Gengbin Gengbin Zheng], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2011'''). ''Distributed Memory Load Balancing''. [http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-387-09765-7 Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Miller:Phil Phil Miller], [[Aaron Becker]], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2011'''). ''Using Shared Arrays in Message-Driven Parallel Programs''. [http://htor.inf.ethz.ch/hips2011/ HIPS 2011]
* [[Aaron Becker]] ('''2012'''). ''Compiler Support for Productive Message-Driven Parallel Programming''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], advisor [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]]
=Forum Posts=
==2009==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28893 Test suites for specific engine features] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], July 10, 2009
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29417 Announcing Daydreamer 1.0] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], August 16, 2009
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32606 The strongest non-bitboard engine on 1 core] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], February 14, 2010
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32999 In praise of git, cutechess-cli, bayeselo, and pgn-extract] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], March 02, 2010 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29 Git (software) from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[[Cutechess-cli]] by [[Ilari Pihlajisto]] and [[Arto Jonsson]]</ref> <ref>[http://remi.coulom.free.fr/Bayesian-Elo/ BayesElo] by [[Rémi Coulom]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/ pgn-extract: Portable Game Notation (PGN) Manipulator for Chess Games] by [[David J. Barnes]]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33088 UCI extensions for kibitzing] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], March 05, 2010 » [[UCI]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47384 Developments of the last two years] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], March 02, 2013
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50805&start=3 Re: copy/make vs make/unmake] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], January 07, 2014 » [[Copy-Make]], [[Make Move]], [[Unmake Move]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50937&start=1 Re: Good question: What % improvement is hardware vs. software] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], January 17, 2014
==2015 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=61502&start=1 Re: Correct node counting ?] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], September 23, 2016
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-becker-86093745/ Aaron Becker | LinkedIn]
* [https://github.com/AaronBecker AaronBecker (Aaron Becker) · GitHub]
* [https://github.com/AaronBecker/project-euler AaronBecker/project-euler · GitHub] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Euler Project Euler from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/people/aaronbecker Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker]
=References=
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[[FILE:AaronBecker.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-becker-86093745/| Aaron Becker <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-becker-86093745/ Aaron Becker | LinkedIn]</ref> ]]
'''Aaron Becker''',<br/>
an American mathematician, computer scientist and software engineer at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google Google Inc.] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View,_California Mountain View, California].
He holds a B.Sc. in computer science and mathematics from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College Harvey Mudd College] in 2004, and a Ph.D in computer science from [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] in 2012, where he was research assistant in the ''Parallel Programming Lab'' <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-becker-86093745/ Aaron Becker | LinkedIn]</ref>, working on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method finite element methods], a multiphase shared arrays library in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charm%2B%2B Charm++], adaptive [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface MPI], parallel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_space_search state space search] and compiler support for productive parallel programming <ref>[http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/people/aaronbecker Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker]</ref>.
Starting in 2009, he developed the chess engine [[Daydreamer]].
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/people/aaronbecker Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker]</ref> <ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Becker:Aaron dblp: Aaron Becker] (mixed up with [https://sites.google.com/site/aabecker/home Aaron T. Becker], 2012 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, also from [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]])</ref>
==2008 ...==
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chakravorty:Sayantan Sayantan Chakravorty], [[Aaron Becker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/w/Wilmarth:Terry Terry Wilmarth], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2008'''). ''A Case Study in Tightly Coupled Multi-paradigm Parallel Programming''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/lcpc/lcpc2008.html LCPC 2008]
* [[Aaron Becker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/d/Dooley:Isaac Isaac Dooley], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2009'''). ''Flexible Hardware Mapping for Finite Element Simulations on Hybrid CPU / GPU Clusters''. [http://saahpc.ncsa.illinois.edu/09/ SAAHPC 2009]
* [[Aaron Becker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Miller:Phil Phil Miller], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2009'''). ''PGAS in the Message-Driven Execution Mode''. [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1809961 PGAS 2009] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitioned_global_address_space Partitioned global address space - Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Aaron Becker]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mfy5O-UAAAAJ&hl=en Ramprasad Venkataraman], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2009'''). ''Patterns for Overlapping Communication and Computation''. [http://softwareengineering.vazexqi.com/2009/06/02/paraplop09-first-workshop-on-parallel-programming-patterns.html ParaPLoP 2009]
==2010 ...==
* [[Aaron Becker]], [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/z/Zheng:Gengbin Gengbin Zheng], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2011'''). ''Distributed Memory Load Balancing''. [http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-0-387-09765-7 Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Miller:Phil Phil Miller], [[Aaron Becker]], [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]] ('''2011'''). ''Using Shared Arrays in Message-Driven Parallel Programs''. [http://htor.inf.ethz.ch/hips2011/ HIPS 2011]
* [[Aaron Becker]] ('''2012'''). ''Compiler Support for Productive Message-Driven Parallel Programming''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], advisor [[Mathematician#LaxKale|Laxmikant V. Kalé]]
=Forum Posts=
==2009==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28893 Test suites for specific engine features] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], July 10, 2009
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29417 Announcing Daydreamer 1.0] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], August 16, 2009
==2010 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32606 The strongest non-bitboard engine on 1 core] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], February 14, 2010
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32999 In praise of git, cutechess-cli, bayeselo, and pgn-extract] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], March 02, 2010 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29 Git (software) from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[[Cutechess-cli]] by [[Ilari Pihlajisto]] and [[Arto Jonsson]]</ref> <ref>[http://remi.coulom.free.fr/Bayesian-Elo/ BayesElo] by [[Rémi Coulom]]</ref> <ref>[http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/djb/pgn-extract/ pgn-extract: Portable Game Notation (PGN) Manipulator for Chess Games] by [[David J. Barnes]]</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33088 UCI extensions for kibitzing] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], March 05, 2010 » [[UCI]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47384 Developments of the last two years] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], March 02, 2013
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50805&start=3 Re: copy/make vs make/unmake] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], January 07, 2014 » [[Copy-Make]], [[Make Move]], [[Unmake Move]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50937&start=1 Re: Good question: What % improvement is hardware vs. software] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], January 17, 2014
==2015 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=61502&start=1 Re: Correct node counting ?] by [[Aaron Becker]], [[CCC]], September 23, 2016
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-becker-86093745/ Aaron Becker | LinkedIn]
* [https://github.com/AaronBecker AaronBecker (Aaron Becker) · GitHub]
* [https://github.com/AaronBecker/project-euler AaronBecker/project-euler · GitHub] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Euler Project Euler from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/people/aaronbecker Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker]
=References=
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