About me
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Erik Altman manages the Dynamic Optimization Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Altman's research has focused on binary translation and optimization, compilers, architectures, and micro-architectures. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 conference and journal papers, and has 20 patents and pending patent applications. He was one of the originators of IBM's DAISY binary translation project, that allowed VLIW architectures to have high performance and achieve 100% binary compatibility with PowerPC. He was also one of the original architects of the Cell processor chip that is to appear in the forthcoming Sony Playstation 3 game consoles. He has been the program chair and general chair of the PACT and P=ac2 Conferences and has served on numerous program committees. He has served as guest editor of IEEE Computer, the ACM Journal of Instruction Level Parallelism (JILP), and the IBM Journal of Research and Development. He is currently the Vice-Chair of ACM SIGMICRO.
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Last updated 12 Jul 2007