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Arvind

Also Known As Arvind Mithal
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Arvind Mithal (18 May 1947 to 17 June 2024), known mononymously as Arvind, was an Indian computer scientist and the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and of the Association for Computing Machinery, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for contributions to dataflow and multithread computing and to the development of tools for the high-level synthesis of digital electronics hardware.

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Birth Year
1947 1
Birth Date
1947-05-18 1
Death Year
2024 1
Death Date
2024-06-17 1
Nationality
Indian 1
Award
Charles Babbage Award 2
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IEEE Fellow 2
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Harry H. Goode Memorial Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2
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What was the Monsoon project that Arvind led at MIT?

Monsoon was Arvind's late 1980s and early 1990s dataflow computing project at MIT; with Motorola his group built 16 dataflow machines.

Monsoon was a dataflow computing project that grew out of Arvind's work on dataflow and parallel computing and ran in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dataflow computing seeks to optimize the flow of data so that a machine can take advantage of parallelism, which allows faster and more efficient computation. In collaboration with Motorola, Arvind's group built 16 dataflow computing machines and developed their associated software. One Monsoon dataflow machine is now in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
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Arvind Mithal (18 May 1947 – 17 June 2024), known mononymously as Arvind, was an Indian computer scientist, the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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    Arvind Mithal (18 May 1947 - 17 June 2024), known mononymously as Arvind, was an Indian computer scientist, the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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  • In Field: Parallel Computing, Infobox field and known_for, lead paragraph
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2. Arvind (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata P166: Charles Babbage Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Charles Babbage Award.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Harry H. Goode Memorial Award.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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