June 12, 1997:
- Computer science Prof gets NSF Career Grant Mark Moir, assistant professor of computer science, has been awarded a four-year National Science Foundation Career Grant of $204,975 for his pro- posal, "Transparent Support for Efficient, Wait-Free Transactions in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors."
- Multiprocessor computers are increasingly popular for a wide variety of computation-intensive applications ranging from cryptography to speech recognition. Interactions between multiple processors in such applications make them much more difficult to program than traditional uniprocessor applications, especially when the possibility of failures is considered. Moir's research aims to relieve programmers of these burdens while improving application performance.