Harold Stuart Stone (born August 10, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American computer scientist specializing in parallel computer architecture.
[1] Stone obtained a bachelor in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in 1960,[citation needed] and his masters and PhD in 1961 and 1963 at the University of California, Berkeley.
[2] His PhD advisors were Robert B. Ash and Eugene Wong.
From 1984 onwards was he a researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and later as a NEC Fellow at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey.
[citation needed] Stone's books include: Stone received the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award in 1992, the Taylor L. Booth Award in 1999, and the Charles Babbage Award in 1991.