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University of Wisconsin - Madison

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5.04/23/2026

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James R. Goodman is Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980 and joined the Computer Sciences faculty at UW-Madison as an assistant professor the same year, advancing to full professor during his tenure. In 1986–1987, he spent an academic year on sabbatical at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Goodman's research centers on computer architecture, with particular emphasis on parallel computing, shared-memory multiprocessors, and transactional memory. His investigations into long-term trends in computer design highlight that while raw CPU performance will become less of a bottleneck, distinctions between uniprocessors and multiprocessors will diminish, positioning memory systems and inter-processor communication as pivotal challenges for future architectures.