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Peter Kogge

b. 1946

American computer engineer

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About Peter Kogge

Born 1946. Peter Kogge is an American computer engineer and university teacher.

Peter Michael Kogge is an American computer engineer and IBM Fellow.

Background Kogge has been at the forefront of several innovations that have shaped the computing industry over the past three decades. While working on his PhD at Stanford in the 1970s, Kogge invented what is still today considered the fastest way of adding numbers in a computer, the Kogge–Stone Adder process, an approach still used in microprocessors by Intel and other companies.

After receiving his degree, Kogge joined the computer engineering team at IBM. During his time there, he was a co-inventor on over three dozen patents. His design of the Space Shuttle I/O processor at IBM was one of the first multithreaded computers, and the first to fly in space.

Contributions Peter was the author of the first textbook on pipelining, a now ubiquitous technique for executing multiple instructions in a computer in parallel. At IBM, Kogge was also the inventor of the world's first multi-core processor, EXECUBE, which Kogge and his team placed on a memory chip in an early effort to solve the data bottleneck problem that Emu is solving today.

In 1994, Kogge joined the University of Notre Dame as a faculty member, the Ted H. McCourtney Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He received the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award in 2014.

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Important facts

Birth century
Occupation
Computer engineer, university teacher
Nationality
Education
Stanford University, Syracuse University, University of Notre Dame
Employers
University of Notre Dame, IBM
Awards
IBM Fellow; Computer Pioneer Award; Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Charles Babbage Award
Also known as
Peter M. Kogge, Peter Michael Kogge

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Peter Kogge?

American computer engineer

When was Peter Kogge born?

Peter Kogge was born on 3 December 1946 in Washington, D.C..

What is Peter Kogge's occupation?

Peter Kogge is a computer engineer and university teacher.

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Peter Kogge is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Peter Kogge

· Wikidata: Q7175254

· DBpedia: Peter Kogge

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