Lucian Vinţan
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Lucian N. Vinţan (n. 27 august, 1962, Cisnădie) este prof. univ. dr. ing. si conducator de doctorate la Universitatea "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu [1] şi membru al Academiei de Ştiinţe Tehnice din România, având contribuţii importante în arhitectura sistemelor avansate de calcul (computer architecture), recunoscute la nivel mondial prin peste 100 de citări (in reviste din SUA, Spania, Anglia, Germania, Italia, Taiwan, Canada, Belgia, Finlanda, Franta etc.) şi dezvoltări. A publicat 8 cărţi de specialitate în edituri prestigioase (Academiei, Tehnică etc.) şi peste 100 de articole ştiinţifice în cele mai importante publicaţii internaţionale din ştiinţa şi ingineria calculatoarelor. Conceptul de "dynamic neural branch predictor" a fost introdus de catre prof. Vintan in premiera mondiala (1999, la Conferinta IJCNN, Washington DC) fiind actualmente implementat in simulatoarele microprocesorului Intel Itanium si cercetat intens in toate marile centre IT. Este expert evaluator al Comisiei Europene in domeniul cercetarilor in stiinta si tehnologia informatiei si cercetator asociat la Universitatea din Hertfordshire, Anglia. In semn de recunoastere a meritelor sale stiintifice a primit Premiul "Tudor Tanasescu" al Academiei Romane pe anul 2003.
Cateva comentarii asupra activitatii sale profesionale, publicate in reviste de specialitate de prestigiu mondial:
Dr. Daniel Jimenez (Rutgers University, USA, in revista ACM Transactions on Computers, 2003): "Dynamic branch prediction with neural methods was first proposed by Vintan..." Dr. Alan Fern et al (Purdue University, USA in Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier, 2006): "...prior to our original Dynamic Decision Tree Predictor there was only one such proposal (Vintan)..." Dr. David Tarjan & Dr. Kevin Skadron (Virginia University, USA, in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization paper, 2005: " The idea of the neural branch predictor was originally introduced by Vintan..." M. Monchiero & G. Palermo (Politechnica di Milano) : "Branch predictors based on neural methods have been recently studied [Vintan 99], [Jimenez 02,03], showing that they are the most accurate predictor in the literature.” Prof. Theo Ungerer (University of Augsburg, Germany, Report, 2002): "Prof. Vintan is one of the rare European scientist working in the research field of prediction techniques in computer architecture...his neural branch predictor is well-known in the research community." Prof. Gordon Steven (University of Hertfordshire, UK, Report, 2002): "I have always been extremely impressed by Prof. Vintan's novel research ideas and by the very large amount of research he manages to successfully undertake." Dr. Colin Egan (University of Hertfordshire, UK, 2003, in Journal of Systems Architecture): "The first known perceptron branch predictor was developed by Vintan [...]." Culpepper B., Gondree M. (University of California, UCDavis, USA, 2005): "There is a growing trend among researchers to apply machine learning techniques to the problem of branch prediction, starting with Vintan ..." Amilcar Arfel Molina D'iaz (University Politecnica Catalunya, TR 2005, Barcelona): "La idea de este perceptron fue introducida originalmente por Vintan..." Dr. Jan Petzold (University of Augsburg, Germany, PhD Thesis, 2005): "Prof. dr. Lucian Vintan danke ich fur die Zusammen arbeit und die vielen hilfreichen Diskussionen wahrend und nach seines Aufenthaltes in Augsburg." Dr. Veerle Desmet (Gent University, Belgium, PhD Thesis, 2006): "Vintan first proposed dynamic branch prediction based on neural networks."
Detalii asupra activităţii sale ştiinţifice se pot găsi la URL-urile: [2], [3] sau [4]