Al Hartman Ph.D

Al Hartman Ph.D General Information

Biography

Dr. Al Hartman served as Chief Scientist at Ziften Technologies. Al's 35 year career as a software and system architect includes senior technical roles with Intel, Dell, AMD, and a number of startups spanning silicon, systems, and software design tiers. While at Intel, he helped pioneer the design of the software stack for the industry dominating x86 processor family and managed Intel's first compiler development team. Later he served with Intel Corporate Strategic Staff, leading its system and software strategic R&D planning, and performing early research to embed traditional software functionality into the underlying silicon logic. Al was a founding member of an advanced technology spinoff attempting to commercialize volume holographic storage technology for massively parallel I/O. At Dell, Dr. Hartmann served as enterprise systems I/O architect and represented Dell on the Board of the InfiniBand Trade Association. He is an expert in systems management and notably invented a novel architecture to regulate application quality of service at the machine level. He received a B.S. EE from Carnegie Mellon University, and masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Al has served for many years as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at San Jose State University. He is an author of a book, contributor to other books and many published papers, and holds 24 patents.