> To: "ip" <ip (((at))) v2.listbox.com>
> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:53:53 -0700
> Subject: [IP] Sad news of Bob Tomasulo's passing
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Dennis R. Allison [allison (((at))) Stanford.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 1:52 PM
> To: allison (((at))) Stanford.EDU; David Farber
> Subject: Sad news of Bob Tomasulo's passing
>
> Mike Flynn, writing from London, reports that Bob Tomasulo died a day ago.
> Bob has been living in Michigan and had a long struggle with cancer.
>
> Bob Tomasulo was the 1997 Eckert-Mauchly Award recipient for the
> ingenious algorithm which enabled out-of-order execution processors to be implemented.
> Tomasulo's algorithm was first used in the floating point processor of
> the IBM 360/91.
>
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