About the Authors

John Paul Shen is the Director of Intel’s Microarchitecture Research Lab (MRL), providing leadership to about two-dozen highly skilled researchers located in Santa Clara, CA; Hillsboro, OR; and Austin, TX. MRL is responsible for developing innovative microarchitecture techniques that can potentially be used in future microprocessor products from Intel. MRL researchers collaborate closely with microarchitects from product teams in joint advanced-development efforts. MRL frequently hosts visiting faculty and Ph.D. interns and conducts joint research projects with academic research groups.

Prior to joining Intel in 2000, John was a professor in the electrical and computer engineering department of Carnegie Mellon University, where he headed up the CMU Microarchitecture Research Team (CMuART). He has supervised a total of 16 Ph.D. students during his years at CMU. Seven are currently with Intel, and five have faculty positions in academia. He won multiple teaching awards at CMU. He was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator. He is an IEEE Fellow and has served on the program committees of ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ASPLOS, PACT, ICCD, ITC, and FTCS.

He has published over 100 research papers in diverse areas, including faulttolerant computing, built-in self-test, process defect and fault analysis, concurrent error detection, application-specific processors, performance evaluation, compilation for instruction-level parallelism, value locality and prediction, analytical modeling of superscalar processors, systematic microarchitecture test generation, performance simulator validation, precomputation-based prefetching, database workload analysis, and user-level helper threads.

John received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, and his B.S. degree from the University of Michigan, all in electrical engineering. He attended Kimball High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. He is happily married and has three daughters. His family enjoys camping, road trips, and reading The Lord of the Rings.

Mikko Lipasti has been an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison since 1999, where he is actively pursuing various research topics in the realms of processor, system, and memory architecture. He has advised a total of 17 graduate students, two completed Ph.D. theses and numerous M.S. projects, andhas published more than 30 papers in top computer architecture conferences and journals. He is most well known for his seminal Ph.D. work in value prediction. His research program has received in excess of $2 million in support through multiple grants from the National Science Foundation as well as financial support and equipment donations from IBM, Intel, AMD, and Sun Microsystems.

The Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society selected Mikko as the country’s Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer for 2002. He is also a member of the IEEE and the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. He received his B.S. in computer engineering from Valparaiso University in 1991, and M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to beginning his academic career, he worked for IBM Corporation in both software and future processor and system performance analysis and design guidance, as well as operating system kernel implementation. While at IBM he contributed to system and microarchitectural definition of future IBM server computer systems. He has served on numerous conference and workshop program committees and is co-organizer of the annual Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking (WDDD). He has filed seven patent applications, six of which are issued U.S. patents; won the Best Paper Award at MICRO-29; and has received IBM Invention Achievement, Patent Issuance, and Technical Recognition Awards.

Mikko has been happily married since 1991 and has a nine-year-old daughter and a six-year old son. In his spare time, he enjoys regular exercise, family bike rides, reading, and volunteering his time at his local church and on campus as an English-language discussion group leader at the International Friendship Center.