Jack Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory , and is an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University.

Ian Foster is the Senior Scientist (Associate Division Director) in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where he leads the Distributed Systems Laboratory, and he is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He is also involved with both the Open Grid Forum and with the Globus Alliance as an open source strategist. In 2006, he was appointed director of the Computation Institute, …

American computer scientist Ken Kennedy (August 12,1945 - February 7,2007) was a professor at Rice University, and the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department. Kennedy directed the construction of several substantial software systems for programming parallel computers, including an automatic vectorizer for Fortran 77, an integrated scientific programming environment, compilers for Fortran 90 and High Performance Fortran, …

Charles is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, member of the Theory of Computation research group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and head of CSAIL's Supercomputing Technologies research group. His research centers on developing theoretical principles of parallel and distributed computing, especially as they relate to engineering reality.

H. T. Kung (Kung, Hsiang-Tsung), b. November 9, 1945 is a computer scientist. His current research is primarily in the area of communications networks and network security, but his interests have been broad-ranging, including complexity theory, database theory, VLSI design, and parallel computing. He received his bachelor degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, and first taught there, …

Sartaj Sahni is a computer scientist and is one of the pioneers in the field of data structures. He is currently distinguished professor and chairman of the CISE department at the University of Florida. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, …

William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work.

Gene Myron Amdahl (born November 16, 1922) is a Norwegian American computer architect and hi-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at International Business Machines (IBM) and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He is perhaps best known for formulating Amdahl's law, a fundamental theory of parallel computing.

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. in mathematics from Stanford University in 1976. He worked for 14 years as a computer scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, but since 1998 has been the Chief Technologist of the Computational Research Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Boleslaw Szymanski is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1999, Dr. Szymanski was elected an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to parallel computing and distributed computing and in 2003, he received the Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award.

Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (born 1932) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization. She was the first female IBM Fellow and first female Turing Award winner.

Parviz Moin is the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1974, his Masters degree in Mathematics and his Masters and Ph.D degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 1978. He held the posts of National Research Council Fellow, Staff Scientist and Senior Staff Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center Research Center.

Carl Adam Petri (b. July 12, 1926) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He was born in Leipzig. Petri invented the Petri net in 1962 as part of his dissertation, "Kommunikation mit Automaten" at University of Bonn. It significantly advanced the fields of parallel computing and distributed computing, and it helped define the modern studies of complex systems and workflow management.

Steven Ericsson-Zenith is a British/American computer scientist. Steven Ericsson-Zenith was a computer scientist and microprocessor developer at INMOS in the 1980s. After INMOS he went to Yale University where he designed the Ease programming language. He is also the designer of the Occam programming language. He is the author of many books on parallel computing, including the "Occam 2 Reference Manual" and "Parallel Processing and Artificial Intelligence".

Jacob T. Schwartz (Jack) is an United States mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He was the designer of the SETL programming language. He received his B.Sc. (1949) from the City College of New York and his M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. (1951) from Yale University. He was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1976, and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Dr. R. Stockton Gaines has had a distinguished 40-year career in research, industry and investments. Until 1995, Dr. Gaines directed a research program at the Information Sciences Institute of USC, addressing issues in parallel computing system architectures, software operating systems and support. He managed the FAST Electronic Broker project, a successful demonstration of electronic commerce using a novel approach to brokered purchasing using E-Mail.

Dr. Michael Allen Langston (PhD. from Texas A&M in 1981) is a computer science professor at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is one of the leading researchers in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology, and has extensive research history in graph theory, parallel computing, analysis of algorithms, discrete mathematics, and VLSI design. He has authored over 150 refereed journal articles, conference papers, book chapters and other reports.

Shahid H. Bokhari (born January 17, 1953 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a highly cited and internationally acclaimed Pakistani researcher in the field of parallel and distributed computing, and a fellow of both IEEE and ACM. Bokhari's ACM Fellow citation states that he received the award for his "research contributions to automatic load balancing and partitioning of distributed processes", …

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