Bruce Shriver

Education

Shriver received his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Career

He has published and lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems In 1990, he was made an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow for his work in computer systems organization and microprogramming. He has been program chairman or general chairman of over 30 international conferences or workshops in a variety of technical areas.

Shriver has given a number of invited keynote lectures at various international conferences and workshops.

He was president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society in 1992. He chaired the initial three-years of the society’s Central and Eastern European Initiative’s Committee and chaired its Ad Hoc Committee for Special Projects.

Shriver was the Department Group Manager of Software Technology at International Business Machines Corporation"s T. J. Watson Research Center in the mid-1980s. He served as Vice-President for Research at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he held an Eminent Scholar Chair in Computer Science.

He has also held an endowed chair at the University of Hawaii and has been an adjunct professor at a number of Universities, including, the University of Aarhus in Denmark.

He currently is a Professor-at-Large in the Computer Science at the University of Tromsø in Norway where he teaches graduate courses in Computer Architecture and Computer Systems Organization. He is also an Honorary and Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. He has chaired numerous department and university-wide committees in these settings and has led accreditation teams to evaluate departments in various universities.

Achievements

• He was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Service Award in 2002 for “Foreign outstanding service to both the Computer Society and computing profession that continues to have enormous impact on responsible governance, high-quality publications and conferences, and the international community.”.

Membership

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]

Shriver has been the editor-in-chief of two Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society periodicals, Computer and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Software and an editorial board member of a number of other periodicals. He has served a number of terms as a member of the Computer Society"s Board of Governors and its Executive Committee. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Chairman of Families Of Children Under Stress (the Federation on Computing in the United States ).