Ken Kennedy

Ken passed away on February 7, 2007. He will be greatly missed.
Click here for the Rice press release .

Ken was the John and Ann Doerr University Professor of Computational Engineering and Director of the Center for High Performance Software Research (HiPerSoft) at Rice University. He was founding chair of the Department of Computer Science at Rice (1984) and of the Rice Computer and Information Technology Institute. More>>

Recent Articles

• Remembering Rice Computing Pioneer Ken Kennedy - Rice Sallyport
  
  
• Remembering KEN KENNEDY - SciDAC Review
  
  
• Ken Kennedy, 61, a Pioneer of Computer Software, Dies - New York Times
  
  
• Ken Kennedy Passes Away at 61 - Technology News Daily
  
  
• Press release appearing in HPC Wire
  
  
• In Memoriam - IEEE The Institute
  
  
• Life in Legacy: Week ending February 10, 2007 - Life in Legacy
  
  
• Farewell Ken Kennedy: Computer scientist, scholar, teacher - Computerworld
  
  
• University Names First Recipient of Fellowship Award Honoring Ken Kennedy - Cray
  
  
• Cray Endows Graduate Fellowship at Rice - insideHPC.com
  
  
• Memorial at PLDI for Ken Kennedy - Kathryn McKinley
  
  
• CITI renamed 'Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology' - Rice Media, Dec. 2007
  
  
• Peter Freeman, Ken Kennedy Honored with Tapia Achievement Awards - The Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference website
  
  
• Meeting with Ken, 1993 - Video from Uli Kremer
  
  

Other Links of Interest

Ken Kennedy's Home Page

CITI@20 Symposium - December 2006

Workshop in Memory of Ken Kennedy - December 2007

Computer and Information Technology Institute - Now the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology