Dr. Robert H. Halstead, Jr.
Vice President and Chief Architect

Bert Halstead serves as the Chief Architect of the Curl team. Before his involvement with Curl, Bert spent over 20 years researching programming languages and parallel computation in both academic and industrial settings. During nine years as a faculty member at M.I.T. he developed the "futures" programming-language construct and implemented it in the parallel programming language Multilisp. Bert continued his work as a member of the technical staff and a consulting engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Lab, where he guided early stages of the project that led to High Performance Fortran, a widely known parallel programming language endorsed by an industry-wide forum. In addition to consulting for numerous industrial clients, Bert has authored or edited more than 30 technical publications, has been awarded several patents, and has served on several technical journal editorial boards and technical conference program committees.

Bert has received bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T.