[wg-all] Geoffrey C. Fox Named 2019 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award Recipient

[Sill, Alan]

Dear OGF colleagues,

We are pleased to congratulate long-time OGF participant, colleague, and past member of the OGF Board of Directors Prof. Geoffrey C. Fox on his selection as this year’s recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award for his "foundational contributions to parallel computing methodology, algorithms and software, and data analysis, and their interfaces with broad classes of applications” as listed on the citation linked below.

This award is of course well-deserved and in perfect consistency with the tradition of scholarship, community service, and mentorship set by the late Ken Kennedy, for whom the award is named and in whose memory it is given. We are also grateful for the long pattern of service and contribution given by Prof. Fox over the years to advance the goals of the OGF community.

On behalf of the Grid Forum Steering Group and the OGF community, congratulations to Prof. Fox!

Alan Sill, Ph.D
Managing Director, High Performance Computing Center
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University
Co-Director, NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing
President, Open Grid Forum

--------------------------------------


ACM Bulletin Archives<https://www.acm.org/membership/acm-bulletin-archive>
October 23, 2019
[to view image click on]

Geoffrey C. Fox Named 2019 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award Recipient

[to view image click on] ACM and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) have named Geoffrey C. Fox of Indiana University Bloomington as the recipient of the 2019 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award<https://awards.acm.org/kennedy>. Fox was cited for foundational contributions to parallel computing methodology, algorithms and software, and data analysis, and their interfaces with broad classes of applications. The award will be presented at SC19: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis<https://sc19.supercomputing.org/>, November 17-22, in Denver, Colorado.

Fox has made several important technical contributions to high performance computing. He identified the principles behind the use of decomposition and efficient message passing in early multiple instruction, multiple data (MIMD) hypercubes, which pioneered application development on parallel machines. In several well-received papers, Fox demonstrated the synergies between message passing interface (MPI) and MapReduce.

Fox’s service to the community includes involvement with several organizations, including the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, to identify research opportunities in computing for the students and staff of minority serving institutions (MSIs). He has also taught Java and parallel computing online courses to historically black colleges and universities and MSIs. Fox has also taken on many volunteer roles, including General Chair, of several conferences and workshops.

Fox is Director of the Digital Science Center, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, and a professor of Informatics and Computing and Physics at Indiana University Bloomington.

ACM and the IEEE Computer Society co-sponsor the Kennedy Award, which was established in 2009 to recognize substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and significant community service or mentoring contributions. It was named for the late Ken Kennedy, founder of Rice University’s computer science program and a world expert on high performance computing. The Kennedy Award carries a $5,000 honorarium endowed by the SC Conference Steering Committee.

Read the ACM news release<https://www.acm.org/media-center/2019/october/kennedy-award-2019>.


[to view image click on]
Association for
Computing Machinery
1601 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10019-7434

Copyright © 2019, ACM, Inc. All rights reserved










-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/wg-all/attachments/20191023/3c3bdc1d/attachment-0001.html>