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Guy Blelloch is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His main research interests focus on interaction algorithms and programming languages, particularly in the realm of parallel computing. He has conducted both theoretical and experimental work on the complexity of programming languages as they evolve into higher levels of abstraction. As implementations become more complex and the amount of parallelism increases, users are distanced from hardware costs. Rather than requiring programmers to understand low-level machine details to obtain optimal performance, Blelloch advocates for bringing programming languages and cost models closer to the programmer's level. His research addresses questions related to modeling costs such as time and space for very-high level programming constructs like dynamic parallelism and garbage collection. Recently, he has been involved with the PSCICO project, collaborating with notable researchers Gary Miller, Bob Harper, and Peter Lee, aimed at leveraging high-level programming constructs for geometric and scientific algorithms. He also continues to work on applied algorithms, parallel garbage collection, and scheduling within the context of the NESL programming language, which he developed with students in the early 1990s.
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