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Anant Agarwal | |
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 Agarwal in 2015 | |
| Born | June 8, 1959 |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, researcher |
| Known for | MOOC edX MITx |
| Honours | Padma Shri (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer architecture |
| Thesis | Analysis of Cache Performance for Operating Systems and Multiprogramming |
| Doctoral advisor | John L. Hennessy |
| Doctoral students | Frederic T. Chong |
| Website | people |
Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher.[1] He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor, and also has served as director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the founder and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design.[2] He also serves as the CEO of edX, a joint partnership between MIT and Harvard University that offers free online learning.[3]
- ^ MIT directory
- ^ "Board of Directors | Tilera Corporation". tilera.com. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
- ^ "edX – About edX". edxonline.org. Retrieved 7 May 2012.