Marius Cornea is a Principal Engineer in Intel's Software & Solutions Group. He received a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Cluj, Romania and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. Since joining Intel in 1994, his work was related to scientific computation, design and development of numerical algorithms, floating-point emulation, exception handling, and new floating-point instruction definition and analysis. His e-mail is marius.cornea at intel.com.