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80
Citations
34167
World Ranking
1059
National Ranking
566

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For concurrent computing techniques for linearizability, non-blocking data structures, and transactional memory.
  • 2005 - ACM Fellow For contributions to distributed and parallel systems.

Overview

Maurice Herlihy is a researcher affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their academic focus lies primarily in the field of Computer Science, with substantial contributions across several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Hardware and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their research interest centers around key topics such as Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Cryptography and Data Security, Optimization and Search Problems, Digital Platforms and Economics, and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems.

Herlihy has authored and contributed to numerous publications, including seminal papers in venue outlets such as:

  • On HTLC-Based Protocols for Multi-Party Cross-Chain Swaps, 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Cross-chain deals and adversarial commerce, 2021, The VLDB Journal
  • An Empirical Study of Speculative Concurrency in Ethereum Smart Contracts, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Distributed Runtime Verification of Metric Temporal Properties for Cross-Chain Protocols, 2022, 2022 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
  • Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization, 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Frequent co-authors include Nir Shavit, Victor Luchangco, Michael Spear, Yingjie Xue, and Maria Potop-Butucaru.

Herlihy's publications appear predominantly in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl), Information and Computation, The VLDB Journal, and the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.

The researcher has also contributed to book publications, including:

  • The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, published by Elsevier BV in 2020
  • Principles of Blockchain Systems, published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers in 2021

Awards recognize Herlihy's contributions within the field. These include:

  • ACM Fellow (2005) for contributions to distributed and parallel systems
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2013) for concurrent computing techniques for linearizability, non-blocking data structures, and transactional memory
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2014)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)

Best Publications

  • Linearizability: a correctness condition for concurrent objects

    Maurice P. Herlihy;Jeannette M. Wing

  • Transactional memory: architectural support for lock-free data structures

    Maurice Herlihy;J. Eliot B. Moss

  • Wait-free synchronization

    Maurice Herlihy

  • The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

    Maurice Herlihy

  • Software transactional memory for dynamic-sized data structures

    Maurice Herlihy;Victor Luchangco;Mark Moir;William N. Scherer

  • Composable memory transactions

    Tim Harris;Simon Marlow;Simon Peyton-Jones;Maurice Herlihy

  • A methodology for implementing highly concurrent data objects

    Maurice Herlihy

  • Obstruction-free synchronization: double-ended queues as an example

    M. Herlihy;V. Luchangco;M. Moir

  • Virtualizing Transactional Memory

    Ravi Rajwar;Maurice Herlihy;Konrad Lai

  • The topological structure of asynchronous computability

    Maurice Herlihy;Nir Shavit

  • Atomic Cross-Chain Swaps

    Maurice Herlihy

  • A flexible framework for implementing software transactional memory

    Maurice Herlihy;Victor Luchangco;Mark Moir

  • Transactional memory execution utilizing virtual memory

    Ravi Rajwar;Maurice P. Herlihy

  • Adding concurrency to smart contracts

    Thomas D. Dickerson;Paul Gazzillo;Maurice Herlihy;Eric Koskinen

  • Transactional boosting: a methodology for highly-concurrent transactional objects

    Maurice Herlihy;Eric Koskinen

  • A quorum-consensus replication method for abstract data types

    Maurice Herlihy

  • Composable memory transactions

    Tim Harris;Simon Marlow;Simon Peyton Jones;Maurice Herlihy

  • Fast randomized consensus using shared memory

    James Aspnes;M. Herlihy

  • Towards a theory of transactional contention managers

    Rachid Guerraoui;Maurice Herlihy;Bastian Pochon

  • Impossibility and universality results for wait-free synchronization

    Maurice P. Herlihy

  • The Art of Multiprocessor Programming : 並行プログラミングの原理から実践まで

    Maurice Herlihy;Nir Shavit;クイープ

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio Rajsbaum
Sergio Rajsbaum National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mark Moir
Mark Moir Oracle (US)
Victor Luchangco
Victor Luchangco Algorand Foundation
Erez Petrank
Erez Petrank Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Jeannette M. Wing
Jeannette M. Wing Columbia University
R. Iris Bahar
R. Iris Bahar Brown University
Rachid Guerraoui
Rachid Guerraoui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Luca Benini
Luca Benini ETH Zurich

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