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858-822-2924
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mbtaylor@cs.ucsd.edu
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| | Michael Taylor - Assistant Professor
Computer architecture, parallel computing, microprocessor and VLSI circuit design, and on-chip interconnection
networks.
Professor Taylor's work focuses on the design, construction and analysis of novel hardware and software systems.
Most recently, he served as lead architect for the MIT Raw microprocessor. Raw is an experimental tiled microprocessor
which demonstrates a way for processor manufacturers to overcome both wire delay and the scalability limitations of
current superscalar designs. This processor was able to outperform Intel microprocessors implemented in a similar VLSI
generation. To a large extent, Intel's recent deployment of multi-core processors acknowledges the Raw approach.
Professor Taylor also conceptualized much of the theory and terminology behind the scalar operand network (SON), a
special class of sub-nanosecond-latency, on-chip network designed for routing operands between functional units and
memories in distributed microprocessors. SONs will have increasing relevance with successive generations of Moore's
Law. One of a rare breed of computer architects who can and does build microprocessors, Professor Taylor is supported
in that effort by the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), through its
substantial investment in microelectronic, embedded systems-on-chip, clean room and fabrication facilities in its new
headquarters building on the UCSD campus.
Capsule Bio:
Michael Taylor joined the Jacobs School faculty in 2005, after receiving his Ph.D. in electrical engineering
and computer science (EECS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Master's degree from MIT
in 1999 and an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1996. Prior to graduate school, Taylor was co-author of Connectix Corp's
Virtual PC, which has been used by millions of people. At UCSD, Taylor teaches core computer-engineering courses and
computer architecture at the undergraduate level, and trains graduate students in architectural design with a VLSI
perspective. Among his honors, Taylor received an Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship in 2003.
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