James Held leads a virtual team of senior architects chartered with developing the architectural framework and research roadmap for the Corporate Technology Group�s Many-Core Initiative.
Since joining Intel in 1990, Held has served in a variety of positions working on computer supported collaboration technology and Intel Native Signal Processing (NSP) infrastructure. He served as staff principal architect in the Media and Interconnect Technology Lab in IAL and as the Lab Director in CTG, managing the Volume Platforms Lab. As a Senior Principal Engineer in the Microprocessor Technology Lab, he conducted research on extensible processor architecture, multi-core processor architecture and helped develop Intel�s virtualization technology strategy.
Before coming to Intel, Held worked in research and teaching capacities in the Medical School and Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. He is a Member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM).
Held earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1972 and an M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1988) in Computer and Information Science, all from the University of Minnesota. |