Nir Shavit

Nir Shavit (Hebrew: ניר שביט) is an Israeli computer scientist.Shavit is a co-author of the book The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, is a winner of the 2004 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science for his work on applying tools from algebraic topology to model shared memory computability, and a winner of the 2012 Dijkstra Prize for the introduction and first implementation of software transactional memory.He heads up the Computational Connectomics Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, focusing on techniques for designing, implementing, and reasoning about multiprocessors, and in particular the design of concurrent data structures for multi-core machines.Shavit is married to fellow computer scientist Shafi Goldwasser, with whom he has two sons.The company claims to use highly sparse neural networks to make deep learning computationally so efficient that GPUs won't be needed.
TechnionHebrew University of JerusalemSoftware transactional memorywait-freeShafi GoldwasserGödel PrizeDijkstra prizeComputer scienceconcurrentparallel computingThesisHebrewTel Aviv UniversityMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyTechnion - Israel Institute of Technologyalgebraic topologySymposium on Principles of Distributed ComputingSymposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and ArchitecturesComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratoryconcurrent data structuresmulti-coreFellowAssociation for Computing MachineryGoldreich, OdedRackoff, CharlesWayback MachineGoldwasserMicaliRackoffHåstadImmermanSzelepcsényiJerrumSinclairHalpernWolperLovászMotwaniSzegedySénizerguesFreundSchapireHerlihyZaharoglouMatiasAgrawalSaxenaRazborovRudichSpielmanReingoldVadhanWigdersonMitchellKoutsoupiasPapadimitriouRoughgardenÉ. TardosFranklinO'HearnMcSherryNissimG. TardosBrakerskiGentryVaikuntanathan