April 14 — It is with great sorrow that we report that Dr. Myron Ginsberg has passed away.
Myron Ginsberg had over thirty years of high-performance computing (HPC) experience in private industry, government research labs, and academia. He was an independent consultant in HPC, a Consultant Systems Engineer for EDS, and prior to that was a Staff Research Scientist at General Motors Research.
He had also been both a full-time and adjunct faculty member in several university computer science departments. In his positions both with GM and EDS, he was actively involved in GM’s initial and continuing supercomputing efforts. His research interests were in large-scale scientific / engineering computations and in benchmarking techniques for assessing the performance limitations of parallel computing systems for industrial applications.
Myron edited four SAE volumes on automotive supercomputing applications. He received the SAE Distinguished Speaker Award, the SAE Forest R. McFarland Award in recognition of his outstanding service in the automotive supercomputing field, and has three times been the recipient of the SAE Excellence in Oral Presentation Award.
Dr. Ginsberg served as a national distinguished lecturer for SAE, ACM, SIAM, IEEE, ASME, and Sigma Xi. He had published extensively and was an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences. He was installed as a Fellow of the ACM for “pioneering and sustained contributions to supercomputing research and its application to the automotive industry in addition to distinguished teaching and service in high-performance computing.” He was a Senior Member of the IEEE.
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Source: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics