Stefanus Du Toit
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Stefanus Du Toit is a Canadian inventor and entrepreneur and a co-founder of Waterloo-based RapidMind
, a company specializing in the development of software that automatically parallelizes serial code. The technology behind Rapidmind was developed by Du Toit during his graduate research at the University of Waterloo
. As of 2008, RapidMind has raised $10M in venture capital financing. RapidMind was acquired by Intel in 2009. In 2008 Du Toit was honored by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35
list.
RapidMind
RapidMind Inc. was a privately held company founded and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, acquired by Intel in 2009. It provided a software product that aims to make it simpler for software developers to target multi-core processors and accelerators such as GPUs.-History:RapidMind was...
, a company specializing in the development of software that automatically parallelizes serial code. The technology behind Rapidmind was developed by Du Toit during his graduate research at the University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
. As of 2008, RapidMind has raised $10M in venture capital financing. RapidMind was acquired by Intel in 2009. In 2008 Du Toit was honored by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35
TR35
The TR35 is an annual list published by MIT Technology Review magazine, naming the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.Some of the most famous winners of the award include Larry Page and Sergey Brin , Linus Torvalds , Jerry Yang , Jonathan Ive , Mark Zuckerberg...
list.