Education
In 1964, Batcher received his Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School.
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In 1964, Batcher received his Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School.
He also worked as a computer architect at Goodyear Aerospace in Akron, Ohio for 28 years. Among the designs he worked on at Goodyear were the:
Massively Parallel Processor (16,384 custom bit-serial processors {8 to a chip} organized in a SIMD 128 x 128 processor array with additional CPU rows for fault-tolerance) which was located at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, and is now in the Smithsonian. This unit predates Danny Hillis" Thinking Machines Corporation"s Connection Machine
The Goodyear STARAN associative processor arrays, a version of which (called ASPRO) was found in the United States Navy Northrop Grumman East-2 Hawkeye radar planes.
He holds 14 patents.
He is credited with discovering two important parallel sorting algorithms: the odd-even mergesort and the bitonic mergesort. Batcher is known for his half-serious, half-humorous definition that "A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems.".