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xx ii About the Author

About the Author

G. Jack Lipovski has taught electrical engineering and computer science at the
University of Texas since 1976. He is a computer architect internationally recognized for
his design of the pioneering database computer, CASSM, and the parallel computer,
TRAC. His expertise in microcomputers is also internationally recognized by his being
a past director of Euromicro and an editor of IEEE Micro. Dr. Lipovski has published
more than 70 papers, largely in the proceedings of the annual symposium on computer
architecture, the IEEE transactions on computers, and the national computer conference.
He holds eight patents, generally in the design of logic-in-memory integrated circuits for
database and graphics geometry processing. He has authored seven books and edited
three. He has served as chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee
on Computer Architecture, member of the Computer Society Governing Board, and
chairman of the Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture of the Association for
Computer Machinery. He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE and a Golden Core
Member of the IEEE Computer Society. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Illinois, 1969, and has taught at the University of Florida and at the Naval Postgraduate
School, where he held the Grace Hopper chair in Computer Science. He has consulted
for Harris Semiconductor, designing a microcomputer, and for the Microelectronics and
Computer Corporation, studying parallel computers. He founded the company Linden
Technology Ltd. and is the chairman of its board. His current interests include parallel
computing, database computer architectures, artificial intelligence computer
architectures, and microcomputers.