Fred Furtek

Dr. Furtek has broad experience in both hardware and software development with special expertise in multicore processors and functional verification tools and methodologies. He was among the pioneers in the area of formal verification (The MITRE Corporation and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory). It was at these two companies that Dr. Furtek began a long-term mission to develop ground-breaking tools for full functional verification of digital systems.

During breaks in this effort, Dr. Furtek founded a field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) company (Concurrent Logic) whose technology has been licensed to Apple Computer, National Semiconductor, and IBM. Concurrent Logic was ultimately acquired by Atmel Corporation. He has also led pioneering efforts to develop new computing platforms based on reconfigurable, multicore architectures unrivaled in price/performance and energy efficiency (Interval Research, QuickSilver Technology and Rapport, Inc.).

Dr. Furtek’s 30+ years of experience have provided the foundation for his most recent accomplishment: solving the multicore programming problem, which has bedeviled computer science for the past 50 years.

Dr. Furtek holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s and doctorate in computer science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has more than 30 issued U.S. patents.