BS(1964) and Ph.D.(1969) degrees in Chemistry from Louisiana State Univ. in New Orleans. Roy has taught computer science and conducted research in the CS departments of both The University of Texas at Austin and University of New Orleans for 35 years. At present he is Director of the Digital Media Collaboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. His research areas are computer system architecture, performance and system modeling and simulation. This research includes uniprocessor design as well as parallel system architecture and the communications networks required to support them. He holds three patents and has published over 50 refereed papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings. One patent defines an optical communication bus on silicon while the other two concern data recovery (software approach) from corrupted disk drives and protection from such corruption. He has been appointed as an IC2 Endowed Research Fellow for the 2005-2007 academic year. He has twice been a section chair for IEEE Computer society. He has advised and graduated 10 Ph.D. students and 23 masters students.

In the commercial world, he was one of two founders of both Highpoint Technologies and New Orleans General Data Services. He has been Chief Technical Officer of both Highpoint Technologies and PowerQuest Corp. and a consultant to many commercial companies including Somerset Design Center (IBM, Motorola and Apple consortium). His performance analysis of the Intel Pentium and IBM/Motorola PowerPC lead directly to the resulting high performance of the G3, G4, and G5 PowerPC processors that come from Motorola and IBM.

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