| Anant
Agarwal received the B.Tech. degree in electricalengineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in
1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering
from the Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1984 and 1987,
respectively. Prior to IIT, Agarwal received his entire education,
from the first grade through to 12th, at St. Aloysius School
in Mangalore.
He
is currently the Associate Director of the Laboratory for
Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, USA, and a Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science at MIT. Over ten of Agarwal's former
doctoral students are professors at Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering departments in the US.
Agarwal
led the Alewife project at MIT, which built a large-scale
shared-memory supercomputer. He is a coleader of the Raw project,
which is building a new kind of microprocessor aimed at both
supercomputing and handheld applications. Agarwal is also
a coleader of MIT Project Oxygen, a project involving about
30 faculty, aimed at building an ambitious pervasive computing
environment. At Stanford, Agarwal participated in the MIPS
and MIPS-X projects.
In
2001, Agarwal won the Maurice Wilkes
award for his work on shared-memory supercomputers.
Awarded annually, the Maurice Wilkes award is given to recognize
an outstanding contribution to computer architecture made
by an individual whose professional career began no more than
20 years previously. Agarwal also won the
Presidential Young Investigator award in 1991.
Agarwal
has been a cofounder of several startup companies including
Virtual Machine Works, which produced a logic emulator for
chip verification, Engim, Inc., a wireless chip company, and
InCert Software Corp., an application fault management infrastructure
company.
Agarwal
served on the visiting committee of Stanford's computer science
department, and as program chair for ASPLOS, a leading conference
in computer architecture and software systems. He also serves
as a board member and advisor to several venture capital firms
and companies.
His
recreational activities include scuba diving, tennis and gardening.
Agarwal is married and has two children ages 2 and 7.
Guinness Record for the Largest Microphone Array :
The largest microphone array is LOUD (Large acOUstic Data Array Project). It consists of 1,020 microphones gathered in a single array allowing operators to pinpoint, track and amplify individual voices in a crowd. It was built by a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Cambridge, MA, USA) led by Professor Anant Agarwal, and became operational in January 2004.
URLs to
the Oxygen, Raw and Alewife projects are given below.
Oxygen:
Alewife:
Raw:
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