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Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professor of
Computer Science,
Mathematics and
Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics and
College of Engineering
University of Houston
232 Aiken Computation Laboratory
Division of Applied Sciences
Harvard University
33 Oxford Street
Cambrdige, MA 02138-2901
Assistant: Roberta Shakis at 617-496-1447 and Shakis@das.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-496-8319
Fax: 617-495-9837
Email: johnsson@cs.uh.edu
Professor Johnsson's research interests are in the areas of parallel computer systems architecture, run-time systems for such architectures, and large-scale applications in the sciences and engineering. He is currently leading a research project in computer communications network routing and projects on fast algorithms for problems with long range forces with applications in astrophyiscs, computational chemistry and electromagnetics. Professor Johnsson is also leading a project on parallel implementation of fast Legendre and spherical transforms .
Dr. Johnsson served as Director of Computational Sciences of Thinking Machines Corp. for eight years. While with Thinking Machines Corp., Dr. Johnsson initiated the design of a register oriented instruction set for the Connection Machine systems CM-2 and CM-200 and lead the development of the first comprehensive, commercial strength, scalable scientific library for parallel architectures for the Connection Machine CM-2, CM-200, and CM-5 systems. Johnsson also lead the development of several communications functions for these systems.
In 1995 Dr Johnsson accepted a position as Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. Dr Johnsson has held appointments at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Yale University. Dr. Johnsson introduced the first courses in parallel computation at Caltech, Yale University and Harvard University. Since 1995 Dr. Johnsson is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Research on Parallel Computation, CRPC, at Rice University. Dr. Johnsson also serves as Chair of the Scientific Board at the National Center for Parallel Computation, PDC, at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Johnsson has authored or co-authored over 100 journal and conference papers on various aspects of parallel computation and served on several program committees. Dr. Johnsson has served on the Board of the Computer Research Association, CRA, and the Universities Space Research Association's , USRA's, Science Councils for ICASE and CESDIS.
Fall Semester: COSCXXXX: Introduction to Parallel Scientific Computation.