Jean-Loup Baer, Professor and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, received the Diplome d'Ingénieur in Electrical Enginering and the Doctorat 3e cycle in Computer Science from the Université de Grenoble (France) and the Ph.D. from UCLA in 1968.

Prior to joining the University of Washington in 1969, he was a Research Engineer with the Laboratoire de Calcul, Université de Grenoble, and a member of the Digital Technology Group at UCLA (1966-69). His present interests are in parallel and distributed processing and computer systems architecture. He is author or coauthor of more than 60 papers in these areas and the author of the textbook ``Computer Systems Architecture'' (Computer Science Press, 1980).

Professor Baer has served as an IEEE Computer Science Distinguished Visitor, and was an ACM National Lecturer. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, an editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and of the Journal of Computer Languages. He has served as Program Chairman for the 1977 International Conference on Parallel Processing, as co-Program Chairman for the 10th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, and as General co-Chairman of the 17th International Symposium on Computer Architecture. He is currently Chair of ACM SIGARCH. Eighteen Ph.D. students have completed their dissertation under Professor Baer's direction. Twelve of them work in industry or research laboratories and six are in academia.

Although he has been in the U.S.A. for over 30 years, Dr. Baer has had no difficulty in retaining his French accent.

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