Q&A Meet Microsoft's multicore man

摘要

Supercomputing expert Dan Reed, who saw the birth of the Web browser at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is joining Microsoft Research on Dec. 3 as director of scalable and multicore computing. "I watched Mosaic come up out of the ground and I watched my students go off to start-ups, and I promised myself that if the surf was up again I was going to grab my board and get in the water," Reed told Network World Senior Editor John Fontana during a chat about his move from academia and what Reed says could be a coming revolution that rivals the development of the Web.