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Aaron Becker [1] Aaron Becker,

an American mathematician, computer scientist and software engineer at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California. He holds a B.Sc. in computer science and mathematics from Harvey Mudd College in 2004, and a Ph.D in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012, where he was research assistant in the Parallel Programming Lab [2], working on finite element methods, a multiphase shared arrays library in Charm++, adaptive MPI, parallel state space search and compiler support for productive parallel programming [3]. Starting in 2009, he developed the chess engine Daydreamer.

Selected Publications#

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2008 …#

• Sayantan Chakravorty, Aaron Becker, Terry Wilmarth, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2008). A Case Study in Tightly Coupled Multi-paradigm Parallel Programming. LCPC 2008
• Aaron Becker, Isaac Dooley, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2009). Flexible Hardware Mapping for Finite Element Simulations on Hybrid CPU / GPU Clusters. SAAHPC 2009
• Aaron Becker, Phil Miller, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2009). PGAS in the Message-Driven Execution Mode. PGAS 2009 [6]
• Aaron Becker, Ramprasad Venkataraman, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2009). Patterns for Overlapping Communication and Computation. ParaPLoP 2009

2010 …#

• Aaron Becker, Gengbin Zheng, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2011). Distributed Memory Load Balancing. Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, Springer
• Phil Miller, Aaron Becker, Laxmikant V. Kalé (2011). Using Shared Arrays in Message-Driven Parallel Programs. HIPS 2011
• Aaron Becker (2012). Compiler Support for Productive Message-Driven Parallel Programming. Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advisor Laxmikant V. Kalé

Forum Posts#

2009#

• Test suites for specific engine features by Aaron Becker, CCC, July 10, 2009
• Announcing Daydreamer 1.0 by Aaron Becker, CCC, August 16, 2009

2010 …#

• The strongest non-bitboard engine on 1 core by Aaron Becker, CCC, February 14, 2010
• In praise of git, cutechess-cli, bayeselo, and pgn-extract by Aaron Becker, CCC, March 02, 2010 [7] [8] [9] [10]
• UCI extensions for kibitzing by Aaron Becker, CCC, March 05, 2010 » UCI
• Developments of the last two years by Aaron Becker, CCC, March 02, 2013
• Re: copy/make vs make/unmake by Aaron Becker, CCC, January 07, 2014 » Copy-Make, Make Move, Unmake Move
• Re: Good question: What % improvement is hardware vs. software by Aaron Becker, CCC, January 17, 2014

2015 …#

• Re: Correct node counting ? by Aaron Becker, CCC, September 23, 2016

External Links#

• Aaron Becker | LinkedIn
• AaronBecker (Aaron Becker) · GitHub
• AaronBecker/project-euler · GitHub [11]
• Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker

References#

1. ↑ Aaron Becker | LinkedIn
2. ↑ Aaron Becker | LinkedIn
3. ↑ Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker
4. ↑ Parallel Programming Laboratory - Aaron Becker
5. ↑ dblp: Aaron Becker (mixed up with Aaron T. Becker, 2012 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, also from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
6. ↑ Partitioned global address space - Wikipedia
7. ↑ Git (software) from Wikipedia
8. ↑ Cutechess-cli by Ilari Pihlajisto and Arto Jonsson
9. ↑ BayesElo by Rémi Coulom
10. ↑ pgn-extract: Portable Game Notation (PGN) Manipulator for Chess Games by David J. Barnes
11. ↑ Project Euler from Wikipedia

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