Babak Falsafi, Pascal Fua and Emre Telatar have been elevated to IEEE Fellows this year. This brings the number of IC professors who are IEEE Fellows to ten, a quarter of the faculty. The 3 professors have been selected by the IEEE Board of Directors to enter the prestigious Association's Fellow Program ' for their extraordinary accomplishments in world-changing technologies. ' Babak Falsafi Falsafi was elected IEEE Fellow ' for contributions to multiprocessor architecture and memory systems. ' Falsafi has made numerous contributions to computer system design and evaluation including a scalable multiprocessor architecture which was prototyped by Sun Microsystems in 1997, energy-efficient memory technologies that are cited by an Intel patent and incorporated into IBM BlueGene/P in 2008, and computer system simulation sampling methodologies that are in use by AMD and HP for research and product development. His most notable contribution has been to be first to show that contrary to conventional wisdom, multiprocessor memory programming models - known as memory consistency models - prevalent in all modern systems since the inception of microprocessors and infamous for burdening programmers with complicated software annotations are neither necessary (shown in a paper in 1999) nor sufficient (shown in a paper in 2007) to achieve high performance. Falsafi joined the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in 2008.
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