Technical Advisory Board
This information is outdated and deprecated. The Technical Advisory Board has been dissolved.
Parimics relied on internal and external sources for determining the feasibility and applicability of new ideas for its products and its engineering methods. These sources are - among others - our Technical Advisers, each of them luminaries in their industries. We are proud to announce world class members of our Technical Advisory Board. The Technical Advisory Board is chaired by Axel Kloth, Parimics' CTO and Vice President of Engineering.
Axel Kloth
Axel Kloth is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Parimics. He holds a post-graduate degree in physics with a minor in Information Technology from CAU Kiel. Axel has acquired an extensive background and a broad experience in architecting, designing, implementing and introducing new and disruptive technologies in semiconductors and in systems. As a processor architect he focuses on simplicity of the architecture and the programming model to ensure fault tolerance, High Availability features, high performance and low power consumption. An author of multiple books and articles, he knows how to make sure that even complicated technical items and their implications are understood. Axel is the author or co-author of over 30 patents and is considered a visionary by many experts in the field.
Dr. Earl T. Cohen
Dr. Cohen is a consultant to the computer and networking industries, and has more than 25 years of experience in the design of software and hardware systems, and in particular ASICs and full-custom ICs. His background includes work in the fields of error correction, high-reliability mainframe computer systems, full-custom microprocessors, CAD tools, and most recently high-end networking equipment, particularly switch fabrics and network processors. Dr. Cohen holds more than 25 patents.
Professor Dr. Gerard Medioni
Professor Medioni is the Chairman of the Computer Science Department and a Professor at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligence Systems at the University of Southern California. He is a scientific adviser to a variety of companies in the area of advanced image processing software and serves as a consultant to a VC firm. He has earned his Ph.D. and his M.S. at USC, and his "Ingénieur Informatique" at the "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications" in Paris, France. He earned multiple awards and fellowships for his scientific contributions. His complete biography can be obtained at http://iris.usc.edu/home/iris/medioni/User.html..
Dr. John Gustafson
Dr. John Gustafson is currently the Director of Intel Labs in Santa Clara. John is well known in HPC, having introduced the first commercial cluster system in 1985 and having first demonstrated 1000x scalable parallel performance on real applications in 1988, for which he won the inaugural Gordon Bell Award. That demonstration created a watershed that led to the widespread use of highly parallel computers. He is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s 2007 Golden Core Award, the re-builder of the Atanasoff-Berry computer system, and the inventor of Gustafson’s Law of parallel computing (sometimes called "weak scaling").
John Wharton
John Wharton has worked in the embedded computer industry for more than 30 years. At Intel, Wharton defined the architecture of the 8051 microcontroller. From 1989 until 2003 Wharton was a Lecturer in Computer Science and E.E. at Stanford University. He was a founding member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Microprocessor Report newsletter, and served as the newsletter's chief processor architecture critic. Wharton holds three patents in memory-system design. Wharton attended Yale and Northwestern University and received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science. His research interests include machine vision and autonomous vehicle navigation.
Stanley Mazor
Stan Mazor first joined Fairchild Semiconductor and then year-old Intel Corporation working under Hoff on the Busicom calculator project, designing the first microprocessor. Mazor assisted in its architecture and wrote software for the Intel 4004. He was a co-developer of Intel's popular 8080 CPU. Stan then began teaching in Intel’s Technical Training group. Later he taught microcomputer courses at Stanford University and several other universities. Stan worked on circuit analysis programs and logic simulation at both Fairchild and Intel, and that led him to join a CAD start-up. Following the CAD route, he joined Synopsys. Writing from his experience, he published a book about VHDL and logic synthesis. His honors include: SFSU Wall of Fame, SIA Robert Noyce Award, PC Magazine lifetime achievement award, Kyoto Prize, Inventors Hall of Fame, Ron Brown American Innovator Award and in 2009 the Fellow of the Computer History Museum. In 2010, Stan was awarded the National Medal of Science and Technology by President Obama.
