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Ian Foster
Ian Foster is director of the Computation Institute, a joint institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, where he is also the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service professor of Computer Science and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow. He received a BSc (Hons I) degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD from Imperial College, United Kingdom, both in computer science. His research deals with distributed, parallel, and data-intensive computing technologies, and innovative applications of those technologies to scientific problems. Methods and software he has developed underpin many large national and international cyberinfrastructures. Dr. Foster is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the British Computer Society. His awards include the British Computer Society’s award for technical innovation, the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Next Generation award, the British Computer Society’s Lovelace Medal, R&D Magazine’s Innovator of the Year, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Canterbury.
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