Steven Muchnick

{{Short description|American computer scientist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}} '''Steven Stanley Muchnick''' (1945-2020) was a noted computer science researcher, best known as author of the 1997 treatise on compilers, ''"Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation."''<ref>{{cite book |last=Muchnick |first=Steven Stanley |author-link=Steven Muchnick |title=Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation |url=https://archive.org/details/advancedcompiler00much |url-access=registration |date=15 August 1997 |publisher=Morgan Kaufmann Publishers |isbn=978-1-55860-320-2}}</ref>

==Background== In 1974, Muchnick was awarded a PhD in computer science from Cornell University. After graduation, he became a professor at the University of Kansas, located in Lawrence, Kansas.<ref>{{cite news |title=Profs devise computer aid for advising |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CU0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BOYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5909,3202913&dq=steven-muchnick&hl=en |newspaper=The Journal World's Kansas University Edition |date=August 1977 |accessdate=18 December 2010}}</ref> During his tenure at that institution, he wrote several research papers, many of which were published in the Journal of the ACM.

Muchnick eventually departed from his teaching profession. He then went on to apply his knowledge of compilers as a vital member of the teams that developed two computer architectures — PA-RISC at Hewlett-Packard and SPARC at Sun Microsystems.

Upon completion of the initial work on each architecture, he served as the leader of the advanced compiler design and implementation groups for these systems.

Later Muchnick became involved in the prevention of HIV infections.<ref name="memorial">{{cite web |url= https://www.stevemuchnickmemorial.com/ |title= A celebration of life Steve Muchnick}}</ref><ref name="interview">{{cite web| url=https://www.ifaratv.org/15th_CROI_Video_Library/400%20Steven%20Muchnik.html |title=Steven Muchnik Interview |publisher=The International Foundation for Alternative Research in AIDS, Inc. (IFARA) |access-date=12 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726171351/https://www.ifaratv.org/15th_CROI_Video_Library/400%20Steven%20Muchnik.html |archive-date=26 July 2011}}</ref> In 2010 he was a member of the San Francisco HIV Prevention Planning Center.<ref name="HPPCMembership">{{cite web |url=http://sfhiv.org/community_hppc_members_2010.php |title=2010 Council Members |publisher=San Francisco Department of Public Health, HIV Prevention Section |access-date=12 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724024049/http://sfhiv.org/community_hppc_members_2010.php |archive-date=24 July 2010}}</ref>

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