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Prof. Jack B Dennis

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Emeritus

Primary DLC

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT Room: 32-G868
(617) 253-6856

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Parallel Computer System Design to Support Functional Languages and Advanced Environments for Modular Programming
Study of Architecture, Performance, and Reliability Issues for Computer System Design

Research Summary

As the original leader of the Computation Structures Group, Professor Dennis led the development of dataflow models of computation and novel principles of computer architecture inspired by dataflow models. He is currently engaged in research on functional programming principles and related principles of computer architecture, and is applying these concepts in the design of a novel advanced multiprocessor chip for general-purpose computing.

Professor Dennis received the 1984 Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions to the field of computer architecture, and is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the ACM.

Recent Work

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