Uri Weiser

Uri Weiser is an Israeli computer engineer and an emeritus professor of electrical engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Earlier in his career he worked at the Israeli Department of Defense and at the National Semiconductor Design Center in Israel, where he led the design of the NS32532 microprocessor. During nearly two decades at Intel, from 1988 to 2007, he initiated and drove the definition of the first Pentium processor, spearheaded development of Intel MMX multimedia technology, co-invented the trace cache, and co-managed Intel design center activity in Austin, Texas. He is a Fellow of Intel, the ACM and the IEEE, and received the ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award in 2016 for leadership and pioneering industry and academic work in high-performance processors and multimedia architectures.