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Henri Elle Bal,
a Dutch mathematician, computer scientist and professor at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is a influential and luminary researcher and authority in parallel computing, computer cluster, parallel programming languages, optimizing compiler and parallel applications. Bal has been a member of over 30 program committees, and as such has had a major impact on the field of parallel computing ^[2] . Henri Bal received a M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Delft University of Technology in 1982, and Ph.D. in CS ^[3] in 1989 under the supervision of Andrew S. Tanenbaum. He was visiting researcher at Imperial College, London, University of Arizona, Tucson and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ^[4]. Along with Robbert van Renesse in 1986, he wrote papers on parallel alpha-beta, with Victor Allis in 1995 on parallel retrograde analysis ^[5], and in 2002, with his student John Romein, he solved the game of Awari ^{[6] [7]} .

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Henri Bal was the driving force behind the acquisition and use of three large distributed cluster computers called the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS), a Computer Science Grid with revolutionary Optical Interconnect ^[8] .

Selected Publications

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1986 ...

• Henri Bal, Robbert van Renesse (1986). Parallel Alpha-Beta Search. 4th NGI-SION Symposium Stimulerende Informatica
• Henri Bal, Robbert van Renesse (1986). A Summary of Parallel Alpha-Beta Search Results. ICCA Journal, Vol 9, No. 3
• Henri Bal (1989). The shared data-object model as a paradigm for programming distributed systems. Ph.D. thesis, Vrije Universiteit

1990 ...

• Henri Bal (1990). Programming Distributed Systems Silicon Press
• Henri Bal (1991). Heuristic search in PARLOG using replicated worker style parallelism. Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 6, North-Holland
• Henri Bal (1992). A comparative study of five parallel programming languages. Future Generation Computer Systems Vol. 8, North-Holland
• Henri Bal, Dick Grune (1994). Programming Language Essentials. Addison-Wesley
• Henri Bal, Victor Allis (1995). Parallel Retrograde Analysis on a Distributed System. Supercomputing ’95, San Diego, CA.
• John Romein, Henri Bal (1995). Parallel N-Body Simulation on a Large-Scale Homogeneous Distributed System. Euro-Par 1995
• John Romein, Henri Bal, Dick Grune (1997). An Application Domain Specific Language for Describing Board Games. PDPTA 1997, CiteSeerX
• John Romein, Aske Plaat, Henri Bal, Jonathan Schaeffer (1999). Transposition Table Driven Work Scheduling in Distributed Search. AAAI-99, pdf ^{[12] [13]}

2000 ...

• Dick Grune, Henri Bal, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs, Koen G. Langendoen (2000). Modern Compiler Design, First Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• John Romein, Henri Bal, Dick Grune (2000). The Multigame Reference Manual. Vrije Universiteit, pdf
• John Romein, Henri Bal (2002). Awari is Solved. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 ^[14]
• John Romein, Henri Bal, Jonathan Schaeffer, Aske Plaat (2002). A Performance Analysis of Transposition-Table-Driven Scheduling in Distributed Search. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 447–459. pdf ^[15]
• John Romein, Henri Bal (2003). Solving the Game of Awari using Parallel Retrograde Analysis. IEEE Computer, Vol. 36, No. 10
• John Romein, Jaap Heringa, Henri Bal (2003). A Million-Fold Speed Improvement in Genomic Repeats Detection. ACM/IEEE SC2003 Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing

2010 ...

• Dick Grune, Henri Bal, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs, Koen G. Langendoen (2010). Modern Compiler Design, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons

External Links

• Henri Bal from Wikipedia
• Faculty of Science : Vrije Universiteit - Henri E. Bal
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Henri Bal

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