Career

Tomasulo was the recipient of the 1997 Eckert–Mauchly Award "or the ingenious Tomasulo"s algorithm, which enabled out-of-order execution processors to be implemented."

Robert Tomasulo joined International Business Machines Corporation research in 1956 after graduating from Manhattan College. After nearly a decade gaining broad experience in a variety of technical and leadership roles, he transitioned to mainframe development, including the International Business Machines Corporation System/360 Model 91 and its successors. Following his 25 year career with International Business Machines Corporation, Bob worked on an incubator project at Storage Technology Corporation to develop the first Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor-based mainframe system.

Company-founded NetFrame, a mid-80s startup to develop one of the earliest microprocessor-based server systems

And worked as a consultant on processor architecture and microarchitecture for Amdahl Consulting. On January 30, 2008, Tomasulo spoke at the University of Michigan College of Engineering about his career and the history and development of out-of-order execution.