Gul Agha (computer scientist)

Gul Agha is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Director of the Open Systems Laboratory. He is known for his work on the Actor model of concurrent computation, [cite journal|last=Lee|first=Edward|title=What's Ahead for Embedded Software?|journal=IEEE Computer|date=September, 2000|url=http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/publications/papers/00/embedfuture/|accessdate=2008-01-01|quote=Gul Agha of the University of Illinois describes actors, which extend objects to concurrent computation.] and was also Editor-in-Chief of "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing Surveys" from 1999 to 2007. [cite journal |last=Agha | first=Gul |title = Computing in Pervasive Cyberspace | journal=Communications of the ACM|volume=51|issue=1|date=January 2008]

Agha received his Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Science from the University of Michigan in 1986, under the supervision of John Holland. However, much of his doctoral research was carried out in Carl Hewitt's "Message-Passing Semantics Group" at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).cite web|title=Gul Agha|work=Faculty Directory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|url=http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/directory/directory.php?name=agha|accessdate=2007-12-30] cite paper|author=Gul Agha|url=https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6952|title=Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems|version= Doctoral Dissertation|publisher=MIT Press|date=1986] Agha's dissertation was published by the MIT Press as "Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems", a book which, according to the ACM "Guide to Computing Literature", has been cited over 200 times. [cite web|author=ACM|title=Actors: a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems|url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=7929|work=Guide to Computing Literature|accessdate=2007-12-30]

Awards

Agha became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2002. [cite web|author=IEEE|title=Fellow Class of 2002|url=http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/Chronology/2002.html|accessdate=2007-12-30] . He is also a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award, and was an "International Lecturer" for the ACM from 1992 to 1997.

See also

*SALSA (programming language)

References

External links

* [http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/people?user=agha Agha's official webpage] at the UIUC Open System Laboratory
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