Claudio
Fleiner, a Software Engineer with Transmeta, joined the
company in 1999. Fleiner was offered a scholarship from
the Swiss National Foundation to work at the International
Computer Science Institute, where he completed his PhD thesis.
In 1996, Fleiner returned briefly to Switzerland to join
IBM Research in Zurich before transferring back to California
to the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1998. Fleiner now
works on exploratory projects at Transmeta, such as his
current interest, the implementation of a second instruction
set (picojava) into the current Transmeta processor.