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James R. Larus is an American computer scientist specializing in programming languages, compilers, and computer architecture. He is Professor Emeritus at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he was Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) from 2014 to 2021.

Before joining EPFL, Larus was a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR) from 1998 to 2013. He was at one point the Director of Research and Strategy for Microsoft's eXtreme Computing Group (XCG) where he helped develop the Orleans cloud computing project. He was also one of the two co-leads on Microsoft's Singularity project.

Previously, Larus was an associate professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Computer Science department.

Education

Larus graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics. He received a Master of Science and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 and 1989.

Publications and Notable Work

Larus is known for the creation of SPIM, a widely distributed MIPS simulator.

He has written many papers and has an h-index of 67. One of his best known papers is his paper on efficient path profiling.

He is also a co-author of the book Transactional Memory, published in 2007 by Morgan & Claypool.

Larus also helped fund and lead the development of the Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP-3T) in effort to provide contact tracing as a way to slow the COVID-19 pandemic.

Achievements

Larus was a Harvard College Scholar, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, and is an ACM Fellow. He has also won numerous awards for his papers over the years.

References

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10. James O. Hamblen; Tyson S. Hall; Michael D. Furman (31 October 2007). Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems: SOPC Edition. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 303–. ISBN 978-0-387-72670-0.
11. "James Larus' Publication List". Google Scholar. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
12. Ball, Thomas; Larus, James (1996). "Efficient Path Profiling". ACM. Micro 29: 46–57. ISBN 9780818676413.
13. Harris, Tim; Larus, James; Rajwar, Ravi (2010). "Transactional Memory". Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture. 5 (1) (2nd ed.): 1–263. doi:10.2200/S00272ED1V01Y201006CAC011. ISSN 1935-3235.
14. Zastrow, Mark (2020). "Coronavirus contact-tracing apps: can they slow the spread of COVID-19?". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-01514-2. PMID 32433633. S2CID 218765305. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
15. "DP3T - Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing". Github. Retrieved 15 September 2020.

• 1958 births
• Living people
• Harvard University alumni
• University of California, Berkeley alumni
• University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
• Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne