Thomas Conte (MSEE ’88, PhD ’92), professor of electrical and
computer engineering at North Carolina State University, is honored for his technical
and leadership contributions to the field of computer microarchitecture. A leading
expert in very long instruction word (VLIW) microarchitectures, Conte is director
of the Center for Embedded Systems Research at NCSU. His contributions to microprocessor
design include a highly regarded solution to the problem of VLIW code compatibility,
seminal work on instruction fetch mechanisms, and industry-influencing work on
hardware performance counter design. His work has been adopted by Intel, TI,
and IBM.
