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Todd Mowry is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses primarily on Computer Architecture and Databases, emphasizing the development of performance-enhancing technologies for microprocessor-based systems. His work strives to exploit various forms of parallelism and incorporates a blend of architectural innovations, compiler techniques, and operating systems support. He is particularly interested in the challenges posed by trends in VLSI technology that are expected to reshape computer systems in the coming decade. One significant area of research is Single-Chip Multiprocessing, especially through the STAMPede project, which aims to automatically parallelize non-numeric applications using thread-level data speculation. Mowry's insights into coping with large latencies have also garnered attention, as he explores intelligent prefetching strategies that trade off bandwidth consumption to reduce latency. He teaches a variety of courses within the Computer Science Department, shaping the next generation of computer scientists through both his teaching and his impactful research.
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