Ian Foster

Director, Computation Institute, and Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab. Founder Univa. Grid and Cloud pioneer.

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Experience

Univa

Founder

Globus

Employee

University of Chicago

Employee

Argonne National Laboratory

Employee

CancerIQ

Advisor

EMC

Advisor

IOCOM

Advisor

Founder

Univa

Employee

University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, Globus

Advisor

CancerIQ, EMC, IOCOM

About

Achievements

Pioneered grid computing methods for delivering computing reliably and securely on demand, as a service, and for forming and operating virtual organizations linking people and resources worldwide--a key to recent Higgs Boson discovery.

Director of the cross-disciplinary Computation Institute, which is driving innovation in computational methods and applications for scientific and biomedical research.

Chief Architect of National Science Foundation's XSEDE cyberinfrastructure.

Elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, British Computer Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Lovelace Medal, Kanai Award, R&D Magazine's Innovator of the Year, British Computer Society's award for technical innovation, Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Next Generation award, honorary degrees from CINVESTAV and University of Canterbury.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Cloud Computing Grid Computing