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Bantwal Ramakrishna Rau

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Bantwal Ramakrishna Rau, known as Bob Rau (1951 to December 10, 2002), was a computer engineer and Hewlett-Packard Fellow. He was a founder and chief architect of Cydrome, where he helped develop very long instruction word, or VLIW, technology that is now common in modern computer processors. He received the ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2002, and the IEEE Computer Society later established the B. Ramakrishna Rau Award in his memory.

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