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May 09, 2008
May 9 -- The IEEE Technical committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) is happy to announce that the IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing has been awarded to Professor Jack Dongarra.
Professor Dongarra is University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee and holds the title of Distinguished Research Staff in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turning Fellow at Manchester University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He is the director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He is also the director of the Center for Information Technology Research at the University of Tennessee which coordinates and facilitates IT research efforts at the University.
Professor Dongarra's contributions have been fundamental to establishing the scalable computing community. He has broad and significant technical contributions through his research, publications and software systems, which range from BLAS/Linpack/Lapack to PVM/MPI and Netsolve as well as the TOP500 list, many of which have become industry standards. He has also been instrumentals in establishing key activities, including conferences and workshops, in the broader area of scalable computing.
The IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing was established in 2008 by TCSC to recognize significant contributions to the scalable computing community through TCSC and/or its activities, coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. Details of award can be found at http://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/ieee-medal.html. The award includes a medal and a honorarium of $1000. As part of the award, Professor Dongarra will present the opening keynote at the CCGrid Conference, May 19-23, in Lyon, France (http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/ccgrid2008/).
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Source: IEEE
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