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Lawrence Snyder, Professor, received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa in mathematics and economics, and in 1973 received a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in computer science. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington in 1979-80 and joined the faculty permanently in 1983 after serving on the faculties of Yale and Purdue. During 1987-88 he was a visiting scholar at MIT and Harvard.
Professor Snyder's research has ranged from proofs of the undecidability of properties of programs to the design and development of a 32 bit single chip (CMOS) microprocessor, the Quarter Horse. He created the Configurable Highly Parallel (CHiP) architecture, the Poker Parallel Programming Environment and is co-inventor of Chaotic Routing. Following the completion of the Blue CHiP Project he is now Principal Investigator for the Orca Project and the NWLIS.
Professor Snyder is an associate editor of the ``Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences,'' parallel systems editor of the ``Journal of the ACM,'' and area editor for "IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems." He has served on the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee of the Division of Computer Research and participates on numerous national advisory committees on future research directions in parallel computation and computer science policy. He served on the ACM Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award selection committee, chairing it in 1988. In 1989 he was program chair for the first Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures.
In addition to the dozen students who have completed doctoral degrees under his direction, Professor Snyder has guided numerous masters and senior projects.