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Alex Aiken received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Music
from Bowling Green State University
in 1983 and his Ph.D. from Cornell
University in 1988. Alex was a Research Staff Member at the IBM
Almaden Research Center (1988-1993) and a Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley (1993-2003) before joining the Stanford faculty in 2003.
He is married to Jennifer
Widom. Jennifer and Alex have a son Tim
and a daughter Emily.
Here are some photos from the family's travels.
Titanium: Compiler
support for explicit parallel programming.
Cool: A freely available
course project for teaching compilers to undergraduates.
Moss: A Measure
of Software Similarity, useful for detecting plagiarism in programming
assignments.
Miscellany
I delivered a memorial for John Backus at PLDI'07.
My wife and I will be taking most of the '07-'08 academic year off to travel with our kids. Those with too much time on their hands can check out the trip's web page.