Samuel S. Stone
Sam Stone assists the Electrical & Computer Technologies Group in patent prosecution in the areas of semiconductors, electronic devices, speech recognition, digital rights management, and software.
During law school, Sam counseled clients of Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic on matters related to digital reproduction and distribution of books, images, and archived news footage. As a summer associate at Goodwin Procter, LLC (Boston, MA), Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. (Washington, D.C.), and Workman Nydegger (Salt Lake City, UT), Sam also assisted in patent prosecution and patent litigation.
Sam’s graduate research involved acceleration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstructions on multi-core microprocessors and massively parallel graphics processors. He was a graduate student of Dr. Wen-mei Hwu in the University of Illinois’s IMPACT Research Group. Sam also worked at NVIDIA as a summer intern.
Sam was the recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a member of the Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society.
Sam co-authored an article entitled “Accelerating Advanced MRI Reconstructions on GPUs” in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing in October, 2008. For the full article, click here.
Sam also co-authored the article “Program Optimization Carving for GPU Computing” in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing in October, 2008. For the full article, click here.
Virginia Tech, B.S., Computer Engineering, summa cum laude
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude
Massachusetts
