H. T. Kung
H. T. Kung | |
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| 孔祥重 | |
| Born | November 9, 1945 |
| Alma mater | National Tsing Hua University (BS) Carnegie Mellon University (PhD) |
| Awards | IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University Harvard University |
| Thesis | Topics in Analytic Computational Complexity (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph F. Traub |
| Doctoral students | Brad Karp Monica S. Lam Charles E. Leiserson Robert T. Morris |
Hsiang-Tsung Kung (Chinese: 孔祥重; pinyin: Kǒng Xiángzhòng; born November 9, 1945) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist. He is the William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University.
Kung's early research in parallel computing produced the systolic array in 1979, which has since become a core computational component of hardware accelerators for artificial intelligence, including Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). Similarly, he proposed optimistic concurrency control in 1981, now a key principle in memory and database transaction systems, including MySQL, Apache CouchDB, Google's App Engine, and Ruby on Rails.