Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson is an American computer scientist and professor at MIT specializing in parallel computing, best known for developing the Cilk programming language for multithreaded programming, which uses a provably efficient work stealing algorithm to schedule parallel tasks and later became the basis of the commercial Cilk Arts, acquired by Intel in 2009. He coauthored Introduction to Algorithms, usually called CLRS after its authors Cormen, Rivest, Leiserson and Stein, one of the most widely used algorithms textbooks in computer science, and he introduced the concept of cache oblivious algorithms, which use a computers memory hierarchy efficiently without being tuned to any specific cache size.