Ian Foster

Ian Foster

male
Open Grid Forum, University of Chicago, British Computer Society, Gordon Bell Prize, Global Grid Forum, Globus Alliance…parallelcomputing, distributed computing
Ian Foster is the Senior Scientist (Associate Division Director) in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory,...

Ken Kennedy

male, deceased (2007)
professor, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, W. W. McDowell Award, vectorizer, vectorization, IEEE Computer Society…Association for Computing Machinery, parallelcomputing, parallel
American computer scientist Ken Kennedy (August 12,1945 - February 7,2007) was a professor at Rice University, and the founding chairman of Rice's...
Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Yale University, Ph.D., Association for Computing Machinery, Akamai Technologies…parallelcomputing, distributed computing
Charles is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, member of the Theory of Computation research group in the MIT Computer Science and...

H. T. Kung

male
taiwanese, Harvard University, communications networks, National Tsing Hua University, Ph.D., parallelcomputing
H. T. Kung (Kung, Hsiang-Tsung), b. November 9, 1945 is a computer scientist. His current research is primarily in the area of communications...
Sartaj Sahni

Sartaj Sahni

male
Taylor L. Booth, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, data structures, data structure, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer, Association for Computing Machinery…parallelcomputing
Sartaj Sahni is a computer scientist and is one of the pioneers in the field of data structures. He is currently distinguished professor and...
W. Daniel Hillis

W. Daniel Hillis

male, 53 years old
inventor, computer, computer pioneer, Long Now Foundation, parallel, parallelcomputing…Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, parallel distributed processing
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded...
Gene Amdahl

Gene Amdahl

male, 87 years old
From South Dakota, IBM Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, physicist, International Business Machines, Amdahl Corporation…parallelcomputing
Gene Myron Amdahl (born November 16, 1922) is a Norwegian American computer architect and hi-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on...
David H. Bailey

David H. Bailey

male
Erdős number 2, Stanford University, NAS Benchmarks, Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, Mathematical Association of America, NASA Ames Research Center…parallelcomputing
David H. Bailey is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Brigham Young University in 1972 and his Ph.D....
Boleslaw Szymanski

Boleslaw Szymanski

male
rensselaer polytechnic institute, IEEE, distributed computing, parallelcomputing, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
Boleslaw Szymanski is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking,...