Henry M. Levy is an American

United States

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 computer scientist

Computer scientist

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. He holds the Wissner-Slivka Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington

University of Washington

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 (U.W.).

Levy's research concerns operating system

Operating system

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s, distributed systems

Distributed computing

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, the internet

Internet

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, and computer architecture

Computer architecture

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. In his early career, Levy worked at Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation

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 (DEC), where he was a member of the design and engineering team for the VMS

OpenVMS

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 operating system for the VAX

VAX

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 computer. His graduate work resulted in the book Capability-Based Computer Systems. He joined the University of Washington Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 1983 and is now Chair of the department. He was involved with several early object-oriented distributed systems (Eden and Emerald)

Emerald (programming language)

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, and also with the invention of simultaneous multithreading

Simultaneous multithreading

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. Levy co-founded two startups, Performant (founded in 2000 and acquired by Mercury in 2003), and Skytap

Skytap

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 (founded in 2006). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

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 (NAE), a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

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 (ACM), and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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 (IEEE).

Levy is also curator of an art collection for the Paul G. Allen Center, home of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The resulting collection represents 22 artists, each with some connection to the University of Washington. Artists represented include Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence was an American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.Lawrence is among the best-known twentieth...

, George Tsutakawa

George Tsutakawa

George Tsutakawa , sculptor and painter, was born in Seattle, Washington. Tsutakawa spent much of his childhood in Okayama, Japan. He returned to Seattle at the age of 16, where he attended Broadway High School before earning a BFA at the University of Washington. One of his early mentors was...

, Kenneth Callahan

Kenneth Callahan

Kenneth Callahan was a noted 20th century Abstract Expressionism painter, art critic curator, and a founder of the Northwest School....

, Akio Takamori

Akio Takamori

Akio Takamori is a Japanese-American ceramic sculptor and is a faculty member at the University of Washington.-Biography:Takamori was born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan in 1950. The son of an obstetrician/gynecologist who ran a clinic, Takamori was exposed to a wide range of people from an early age...

, Alden Mason, Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham

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, Art Wolfe

Art Wolfe

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, and Chuck Close

Chuck Close

Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...

.

External links

• Hank Levy's home page, University of Washington
• Art in the Allen Center, University of Washington