James C. Browne 教授访问并行计算实验室

2008年１０月１４日上午，德克萨斯州大学James C. Browne教授对中科院软件所并行计算实验室进行访问。并行计算实验室副主任张云泉研究员接待了来访的客人。上午10点，James C. Browne教授在计算机科学国家重点实验室报告厅给大家带来了精彩的学术报告。报告题目是“Combining Development and Property Evaluation of Parallel Computational Models: Models of Model Implementations”。会后，双方进行了深入友好的交流。

James C. Browne简介：
Browne is Professor of Computer Science and Physics and holds the Regents Chair #2 in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. He taught in the Physics Department at The University of Texas from 1960 through 1964. He was, from 1965 through 1968, Professor of Computer Science at Queens University in Belfast and directed the Computer Laboratory. Browne joined The University of Texas in 1968 as Professor of Physics and Computer Science. He served as Department Chair for Computer Sciences in 1968-69,1971-75 and 1984-87.

Browne's research interests span parallel programming and computation with a focus on applications in science and engineering, performance measurement and analysis, software engineering and formal methods including unification of verification and validation methods for software systems. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute for Constructive Capitalism. Browne has published approximately 100 papers in computational physics and 250 papers in Computer Science.

Browne has also been active in technology transfer and the technology industry including founding Hyperformix Inc., which sells products and services for performance management and engineering for enterprise level computer systems.