Harold S. Stone

Harold Stuart Stone (born August 10, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American computer scientist specializing in parallel computer architecture. He is an IEEE Fellow, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994).^[1]

Education and career

Stone obtained a bachelor in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 1960,^{[citation needed]} and his masters and PhD in 1961 and 1963 at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2] His PhD advisors were Robert B. Ash and Eugene Wong.^[3] He was a faculty member at Stanford University from 1968 until 1974, when he moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. From 1984 onwards was he a researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and later as a NEC Fellow at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey.^{[citation needed]}

Books

Stone's books include:

• High Performance Computer Architecture, Addison-Wesley 1987, 2. Edition 1993
• Introduction to Computer Architecture, 1975, 2. Edition, Chicago: Science Research Associates 1980
• Introduction to Computer Organization and Data Structures, McGraw Hill 1971
• Discrete mathematical structures and their applications, Chicago: Science Research Associates 1973
• Microcomputer Interfacing, Addison-Wesley 1982
• with Daniel Siewiorek Introduction to computer organization and data structures, PDP-11 edition, McGraw Hill 1975

Recognition

Stone received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award in 1992, the Taylor L. Booth Award in 1999, and the Charles Babbage Award in 1991.^[2] He is IEEE Fellow^{[citation needed]} and Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1993).^[2]

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