Ken Kennedy

15.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
228 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Ken Kennedy is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Kennedy has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 177 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 141 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 63 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ken Kennedy's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (171 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (77 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (52 papers). Ken Kennedy is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (171 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (77 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (52 papers). Ken Kennedy collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Austria. Ken Kennedy's co-authors include John R. Allen, David Callahan, Keith D. Cooper, Randy Allen, Chau‐Wen Tseng, Seema Hiranandani, Steve Carr, Kathryn S. McKinley, Linda Torczon and Chen Ding and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Communications of the ACM and Mathematics of Computation.

In The Last Decade

Ken Kennedy

221 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

Optimizing Compilers for ... 1983 2026 1997 2011 2001 1987 1983 200 400 600

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ken Kennedy 7.1k 5.9k 2.0k 1.6k 1.1k 228 9.0k
Vivek Sarkar 5.9k 0.8× 5.3k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 679 0.6× 241 7.5k
James R. Larus 5.8k 0.8× 6.0k 1.0× 2.3k 1.2× 2.5k 1.6× 1.8k 1.7× 188 9.3k
David Padua 4.7k 0.7× 3.6k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 962 0.6× 517 0.5× 171 5.8k
Guy L. Steele 3.5k 0.5× 3.4k 0.6× 4.9k 2.5× 1.9k 1.2× 1.1k 1.1× 131 8.5k
Ravi Sethi 3.0k 0.4× 3.0k 0.5× 3.8k 1.9× 1.8k 1.1× 1.8k 1.6× 88 9.8k
Vikram Adve 3.6k 0.5× 3.2k 0.5× 2.3k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 851 0.8× 136 5.8k
Susan L. Graham 2.3k 0.3× 2.4k 0.4× 2.1k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 633 0.6× 87 4.5k
Keshav Pingali 4.3k 0.6× 4.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 405 0.4× 230 6.5k
C. A. R. Hoare 3.9k 0.5× 4.2k 0.7× 7.0k 3.5× 2.0k 1.2× 2.0k 1.8× 109 12.3k
Garth A. Gibson 4.2k 0.6× 11.8k 2.0× 1.8k 0.9× 3.8k 2.4× 164 0.2× 201 13.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ken Kennedy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ken Kennedy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Kennedy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ken Kennedy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ken Kennedy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ken Kennedy. Ken Kennedy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chauhan, Anand & Ken Kennedy. (2003). Slice-hoisting for Array-size Inference in MATLAB. 1 indexed citations
2.
Cornwall, Andréa, et al.. (2003). Putting partnership into practice: participatory wellbeing assessment on a south London housing estate. Health Expectations. 6(1). 30–43. 9 indexed citations
3.
Berman, Francine, Andrew A. Chien, Keith D. Cooper, et al.. (2000). The GrADS Project: Software Support for High-Level Grid Application Development. CTIT technical reports series. 15 indexed citations
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Budimlić, Zoran & Ken Kennedy. (1999). Prospects for Scientific Computing in Polymorphic, Object-Oriented Style.. PPSC. 6 indexed citations
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Kennedy, Ken. (1998). Compilers, languages, and libraries. Journal of Grid Computing. 39(7). 181–204. 5 indexed citations
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Kennedy, Ken, et al.. (1996). Dependence Analysis of Fortran90 Array Syntax.. Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 1225–1235. 10 indexed citations
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Hiranandani, Seema, Ken Kennedy, & Chau‐Wen Tseng. (1995). Compiling Fortran D for MIMD distributed-memory machines. IEEE Computer Society Press eBooks. 57–71. 38 indexed citations
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Das, Raja, Paul Havlak, Joel Saltz, & Ken Kennedy. (1995). Index array flattening through program transformation. 70–es. 22 indexed citations
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Nicolau, Alexandru, et al.. (1994). An algorithm for minimizing spill code in loops. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations
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Kennedy, Ken & Kathryn S. McKinley. (1994). Typed Fusion with Applications to Parallel and Sequential Code Generation. 34 indexed citations
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Hall, Mary, Seema Hiranandani, Ken Kennedy, & C.-W. Tseng. (1992). Interprocedural compilation of Fortran D for MIMD distributed-memory machines. Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing). 522–534. 40 indexed citations
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Callahan, David, Ken Kennedy, & Allan Porterfield. (1991). Software prefetching. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 25(Special Issue). 40–52. 2 indexed citations
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Havlak, Paul & Ken Kennedy. (1990). Experience with interprocedural analysis of array side effects. Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing). 952–961. 15 indexed citations
14.
Allen, Randy & Ken Kennedy. (1990). Programming environments for supercomputers. University of Texas Press eBooks. 19–38.
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Kennedy, Ken & Kathryn S. McKinley. (1990). Loop distribution with arbitrary control flow. Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing). 407–416. 45 indexed citations
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Dongarra, Jack, Alan H. Karp, Ken Kennedy, & David J. Kuck. (1990). Special Report: 1989 Gordon Bell Prize. IEEE Software. 7(3). 100–104. 8 indexed citations
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Carr, Steve & Ken Kennedy. (1989). Blocking Linear Algebra Codes for Memory Hierarchies. 400–405. 33 indexed citations
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Briggs, Preston, Keith D. Cooper, Ken Kennedy, & Linda Torczon. (1989). Coloring heuristics for register allocation (with retrospective). Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging. 2022. 283–294. 3 indexed citations
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Callahan, David & Ken Kennedy. (1988). Compiling programs for distributed-memory multiprocessors. The Journal of Supercomputing. 2(2). 151–169. 208 indexed citations
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Kennedy, Ken. (1987). Automatic Decomposition of Fortran Programs for Execution on Multiprocessors-Abstract. 300. 1 indexed citations

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