Bruce D. Shriver

Worldwide lecturer in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems, Shriver has been a computer science academic, consultant, and entrepreneur in the area of high-performance computer systems, publishing extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad. Born in Buffalo, New York, he received a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering and a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Cal State Polytechnic University in Pomona in 1963. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1971.

Shriver joined the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) in 1973, where he served for 11 years, including as Vice-President for Research, and held an Eminent Scholar Chair in Computer Science. He joined IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in 1984 as the Department Group Manager of Software Technology. In 1990, he was made an IEEE Fellow for his work in computer systems organization and microprogramming, and served as President of the IEEE Computer Society in 1992.

He has served as a lecturer in the society's Distinguished Visitors Program as well as an ACM National Lecturer, giving a number of invited keynote lectures at various international conferences and workshops. Shriver has been involved in both ACM's special interest groups and the Computer Society's technical committees. He served as Vice-Chairman of SIGMICRO and Editor of the SIGMICOR Newsletter, the Joint SIGMICRO and TC-Micro Representative to EuroMicro, Chairman of the TC on Microprogramming, and Vice-Chairman of the TC on Computational Medicine.

He has served as Editor-In-Chief of two IEEE Computer Society periodicals, Computer and IEEE Software, and as an Editorial Board member of a number of other periodicals. He served a number of terms as a member of the Computer Society's Board of Governors and its Executive Committee. Shriver chaired the initial three years of the society's Central and Eastern European Initiative's Committee and chaired its Ad Hoc Committee for Special Projects. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Chairman of FOCUS (the Federation on Computing in the United States).

He received the IEEE Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Service Award in 2002 "For outstanding service to both the Computer Society and computing profession that continues to have enormous impact on responsible governance, high-quality publications and conferences, and the international community." He has served as Program Chairman or General Chairman of over 30 international conferences or workshops in a variety of technical areas.

Shriver held an Endowed Chair at the University of Hawaii and has been an Adjunct Professor at a number of universities, including the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He has served as a Professor-at-Large in Computer Science at the University of Tromsø in Norway, where he taught graduate courses in Computer Architecture and Computer Systems Organization. He has also been an Honorary and Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. Shriver chaired numerous department and university-wide committees in these settings and led accreditation teams to evaluate departments in various universities.

He is the co-author with Bennett Smith of "The Anatomy of a High-Performance Microprocessor, A Systems Perspective," IEEE Computer Society Press, July 1998.