Parimics Appoints Three Industry Experts to its Technical Advisory Board

SARATOGA, Calif - Parimics (advanced real-time image analysis subsystems) today announced that three well-known processor technologists have joined its Technical Advisory Board. The new TAB members are John L. Gustafson, Stanley Mazor, and John Wharton.

John L. Gustafson is widely recognized for his research in the speedup of parallel processing systems. His pioneering work on a 1024-processor nCUBE at Sandia National Laboratories created a watershed in parallel computing, for which he received the inaugural Gordon Bell Award. Gustafson continues to be at the forefront of high performance computing R&D, and is currently Director of Intel Labs in Santa Clara, CA.

Stanley Mazor is one of the inventors of the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He wrote the software for this revolutionary chip. In 1996, along with his co-inventors (Ted Hoff, Masatoshi Shima, and Federico Faggin) Mazor was inducted into the National Inventors' Hall of Fame. After leaving Intel, he joined EDA and CAD startups to help popularize Hardware Description Languages for chip design. More recently he has been teaching in the industry and guest lecturing in universities.

John Wharton defined the architecture of the Intel 8051 microcontroller, the highest-volume processor family in Intel history. Since 1980 more than fifty companies have developed software-compatible variations of that device. From 1989 through 2003, Wharton lectured in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford. He has published scores of articles on microprocessor hardware, software, and operating system design and holds three patents in memory system architecture.