BIO: Hubertus Franke IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center Dr. Franke is a Research Staff Member and manager in the Scalable Systems Department at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received a Diplom degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1987, and a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He subsequently joined IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he worked on the IBM SP1/2 MPI subsystem, scalable operating systems, Linux scalability and enterprise readiness, multi-core architectures, and scalable applications. He was a principal architect of the PowerEN architecture. He is currently applying his system expertise to cloud architectures and business analytics applications. He received several IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards for his work. He is an author or coauthor of more than 100 technical papers and 30 patents. He is a Member of the IBM Academy of Science and an IBM Master Inventor. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor for Computer Science at NYU, New York City, with focus on operating systems, computer architecture and compilers.
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