Event Details
About NUS120:
The National University of Singapore celebrates its 120th anniversary in 2025, commemorating a legacy, forged over generations, of excellence, innovation and service.
As Singapore’s first higher education institution and its flagship university, NUS has been instrumental in nurturing generations of leaders and visionaries who have shaped the nation and beyond. Our 120th anniversary offers a singular milestone to look back on this storied history, while re-affirming our continuing mission to shape the future.
In our line-up of programmes and events for NUS120, we hope to celebrate the legacy and contributions of an institution uniquely established by the community for the community, since our founding in 1905.
About the Speaker:
Bill Dally joined NVIDIA in January 2009 as Chief Scientist, after spending 12 years at Stanford University, where he was Chairman of the Computer Science department. Dally and his Stanford team developed the system architecture, network architecture, signalling, routing and synchronisation technology found in most large parallel computers today. He was previously at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1986 to 1997, where he and his team built the J-Machine and the M-Machine, experimental parallel computer systems that pioneered the separation of mechanism from programming models and demonstrated very low overhead synchronisation and communication mechanisms.
From 1983 to 1986, he was at California Institute of Technology (CalTech), where he designed the MOSSIM Simulation Engine and the Torus Routing chip, pioneering “wormhole” routing and virtual-channel flow control. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. His honours include the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, the IEEE Seymour Cray Award, and the ACM Maurice Wilkes award.
He has published over 250 papers, holds over 120 issued patents, and is the author of four textbooks. Dally received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, a master’s in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a PhD in Computer Science from CalTech. He was also a co-founder of Velio Communications and Stream Processors.
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