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| Alcatel-Lucent Professor, Stanford University Computer Science Division Director, SLAC |  past portraits |
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| office | 490 Gates |
| phone | 650-725-3359 |
| assistant | Opeta Henderson opetah@stanford.edu 650-721-1166 |
Alex Aiken is the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Alex received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Music from Bowling Green State Universityin 1983 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. Alex was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center (1988-1993) and a Professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley (1993-2003) before joining the Stanford faculty in 2003. His research interest is in areas related to programming languages. He is an ACM Fellow, a recipient of ACM SIGPLAN's Programming Languages Achievement Award and Phi Beta Kappa's Teaching Award, and a former chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department.
Alex is married to Jennifer Widom. Jennifer and Alex have a son Timand a daughter Emily.Here are some photos from the family's travels.
- 12/2022 Here are the talks and slides from the 2022 Legion Retreat.
- CS242: Programming Languages
- CS315B: Programming Supercomputers
- My publicly available, free, self-study compilers course. The course covers the essentials of compiler construction, plus material on language design and semantics, optimization, and bit on the history of programming languages. There are optional programming assignments for hard-core enthusiasts who want to build a full, functioning compiler forCOOL, the Classroom Object Oriented Language.
- Stanford Software Seminar
- The weekly software research lunch.
- FlexFlow is a system for automatically finding fast parallelization strategies for deep learning training and inference. FlexFlow is built on Legion (see below).
- Legion is a programming system for heterogenous, parallel machines with complex memory hierarchies.
- A Regent tutorial
- A Legion tutorial I also maintain a page of past research projects and a set of pages internal to current projects.
- Here's a recent trip report from a winter crossing of the wilderness areas west of Lake Tahoe.
- I gave the commencement speech at CS graduation during the time I was department chair (well, I did miss one year ...). I've received requests for links to those speeches, so here they are: 2015,2017, and2018.
- If my bio is too short for you, People of PLDI has published an interview with me, along with a number of other PL researchers.
- In 2018 I celebrated the (almost) end of my term as department chair by hiking the Sierra High Route. Here is the trip report.
- Advice for Program Chairs distills my experience (and things I've learned from many other people) as a program chair for POPL and PLDI.
- I delivered a memorial for John Backus at PLDI'07.
- My family took most of the '07-'08 academic year off to travel the world. Those with too much time on their hands can check out the trip's web page.
Current Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Students