10 Facts About James Larus

James R Larus is an American computer scientist specializing in programming languages, compilers, and computer architecture.

James Larus is Professor Emeritus at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne where he was Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences from 2014 to 2021.

James Larus was at one point the Director of Research and Strategy for Microsoft's eXtreme Computing Group where he helped develop the Orleans cloud computing project.

James Larus was one of the two co-leads on Microsoft's Singularity project.

James Larus received a Master of Science and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 and 1989.

James Larus is known for the creation of SPIM, a widely distributed MIPS simulator.

James Larus has written many papers and has an h-index of 67.

James Larus helped fund and lead the development of the Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing in effort to provide contact tracing as a way to slow the COVID-19 pandemic.

James Larus was a Harvard College Scholar, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, and is an ACM Fellow.

James Larus has won numerous awards for his papers over the years.