Augustus Kinzel Uht


Professional Biography

Dr. Uht is a Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. He has been at URI in different capacities since 1992. He is currently listed in "Who's Who in America." Dr. Uht is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism. In May 2001 Prof. Uht was recognized for "Outstanding Contributions to Intellectual Property" by URI. Dr. Uht is the recipient of the URI 1998 Aurelio Lucci Faculty Excellence Award in Electrical Engineering. Prof. Uht has published papers in such publications as COMPUTER magazine, IEEE Micro magazine, the MIT Monograph Series in Parallel and Distributed Computing (a chapter), the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and the Proceedings of the Symposia on Microarchitecture, and Supercomputing. Dr. Uht has served on the Program Committee of Symposia on Microarchitecture and the Workshop on Solving the Memory Wall Problem. Dr. Uht was Tutorials Chair for HPCA-8. He holds one U.S. Patent and has three patent applications in process. Dr. Uht worked for four years at IBM on mainframe main- and extended- memory development. He also worked at the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies of Cornell University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the states of New York and Pennsylvania. Dr. Uht was the College of Engineering representative of the local chapter of the Sigma Xi Honor Society, and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, IEEE, ACM, and NSPE. Prof. Uht has served on the Adjunct Faculty at Northeastern University.

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Personal Biography

(For the bored, or those desiring to be bored.)

I was born on July 19, 1955 in New York Hospital, on York Ave., in New York County, in the City of New York, in the State of New York, USA. I grew up in a brownstone at 511 E. 84th St, living there 'til I left for college in 1973. I have no desire to live in NYC again.

While in NYC, I went to Kindergarten at PS 77 (long gone, now), and all 12 years of grade school at Trinity School (139 W. 91st St.).

I built my first of about 30 Heathkits at age 8. Many discarded TV's were disemboweled at my hands. In high school I took care of equipment for a friend's band. I was Co-Head of the Language Lab at school. The Lab was comprised of a dedicated private switching system, allowing students from all over the school to dial-up and listen to tapes (nominally foreign language tapes, but a rock and roll track or two made their way onto the system, as well). The switch was a bona fide crossbar (boy, does that date me). We had 16 - 7" reel-to-reel tape drives on the system. 1/4" tape, 4 tracks/tape, unidirectional (mono).

I spent about four years as a bicycle mechanic at Gene's Bike Shop at 77th and 2nd, which later moved to 79th St., but is now defunct. This brought in money, but distracted me from getting enough merit badges to make Eagle scout. Such is life.

to be continued ?


March 1, 2004 | Gus Uht | uht@ele.uri.edu