Algirdas Avizienis

Algirdas Avizienis

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS
COMPUTER SCIENCE

BH 6514

Email: aviz@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-1322
Fax: (310) 825-7578

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Dr. Avizienis was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, and has resided in the USA since 1950. He received the B.S. (1954), M.S. (1955), and the Ph.D. (1960) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and joined the UCLA Faculty in 1962. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of the AIAA Information Systems Award (1979), the NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1980), the annual IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (1985) and the IFIP Silver Core Award (1986). His teaching and research interests are in computer system architecture, digital arithmetic, and fault-tolerant computing, especially software fault tolerance, fault-tolerant distributed system architectures, and design methodology for fault-tolerant systems.
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
  • Digital computer architecture and design
  • Fault-tolerant computing
  • Digital arithmetic
EDUCATION
  • B.S. (1954), Electrical Engineering, the University of Illinois
  • M.S. (1955), Electrical Engineering, the University of Illinois
  • Ph.D. (1960), Electrical Engineering, the University of Illinois
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • IEEE Fellow
  • 2018 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing for his 1977 paper: On the Implementation of N-Version Programming for Software Fault Tolerance During Execution, A. Avizienis and L. Chen, Proceedings COMPSAC, 149-155.