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Oyekunle (Kunle) Ayinde Olukotun, from Nigeria, is a pioneer of multicore processors. He is well known for leading the Stanford Hydra research project which developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS). He is also a cadence design systems professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University, and the director of the Standford Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory.
Source: Arsenalfc (Stanford University)
In the mid-1990s, Kunle Olukotun and his co-authors argued that multicore computer processors were likely to make better use of hardware than existing superscalar designs. In 2000, while a professor at Stanford, he founded Afara Websystems, a company that designed and manufactured multicore SPARC-based computer processors for data centers.
Afara was purchased by Sun Microsystems in 2002. At Sun, Kunle Olukotun was one of the architects of the 2005 UltraSPARC T1 processor. In 2008, he returned to Stanford and founded the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory. His recent work focuses on domain-specific programming languages that can allow algorithms to be easily adapted to different types of parallel hardware, including multicore systems, graphics processing units, and field-programmable gate arrays.