Patrice Quinton is Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at Ecole normale supérieure de Rennes, France. Formerly President of ENS Rennes, he graduated in 1972 from ENSIMAG in Grenoble, and obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Rennes 1 in 1980. His scientific interests are parallel computing and parallel architectures, in particular, the synthesis of parallel program using the polyhedral model of loops.