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Maurice Herlihy is the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University's School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT and an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University. His career includes roles at Carnegie Mellon University and the DEC Cambridge Research Lab. Herlihy is renowned for contributions to distributed computing, concurrency control, and blockchain technologies. He has authored influential books like The Art of Multiprocessor Programming and Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology. His research focuses on consensus algorithms, transactional memory, and distributed systems design.
Herlihy has received prestigious awards, including multiple Dijkstra Prizes, the Gödel Prize, and the Wallace McDowell award. He is an ACM Fellow and holds fellowships from the National Academy of Engineering and other institutions. His recent work explores blockchain concurrency, sharded ledgers, and fault-tolerant consensus protocols. He has delivered keynotes on blockchains and distributed computing and teaches courses on multiprocessor synchronization and combinatorial topology in computing.
His contributions bridge theoretical foundations and practical implementations, emphasizing scalability, security, and concurrency in distributed systems.
