Alexia Massalin

Alexia Massalin (born Henry Massalin) is an American computer scientist and programmer. Massalin pioneered the concept of superoptimization, and designed the Synthesis kernel, a small Unix kernel that makes heavy use of self-modifying code for efficiency.

As of October 1992, Massalin works as a research scientist at MicroUnity. [cite web
title = Key Technical Personnel
url = http://www.microunity.com/company/technical.html
publisher = MicroUnity]

References

* cite magazine
author = Gary Andrew Poole
month = December
year = 1996
title = Qua
url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffmassalin.html
journal = Wired
issue = 4.12