David May (computer scientist)

David May
Born (1951-02-24) 24 February 1951 (age 74)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forTransputer
AwardsFRS (1991)
FREng (2010)
Patterson Medal (1992)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
Websitewww.cs.bris.ac.uk/~dave/

Michael David May (born 24 February 1951[citation needed]) is a British computer scientist working primarily in the fields of computer architecture, parallel computing and robotics. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and founder of XMOS Semiconductor, serving until February 2014 as the chief technology officer.[1]

May is one of the few individuals who have led the design of a CPU architecture, an interconnect and a modern era programming language.

In addition to his work on parallel-computing microprocessors, he is particularly well known for his work on memory management and compiler development. He was lead architect for the pioneering parallel microprocessr, the transputer.

As of 2024, he holds 56 patents in areas including microprocessors, multi-processing and communication protocols.

  1. ^ David May at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata

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