TeraGrid '07 Speakers List

Dr. Anita Jones,Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering & Applied Science Professor of Computer Science University of Virginia

The Honorable Anita K. Jones was sworn in as the Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense in June 1993. In that position she was responsible for the management of the science and technology program. This included responsibility for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, oversight of the DoD laboratories, as well as being the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for defense-related scientific and technical matters. She returned to the University in 1997.

Dr. Jones is a member of the Defense Science Board, the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Corporation, Science Foundation Arizona and the MIT Corporation. She has co-chaired the Commonwealth of Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission and was vice-chair of the National Science Board. She has served on other government advisory boards such the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and on various boards and panels for NASA, the National Research Council, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation as well as Science Foundation Ireland. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. She received the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award from the Association of Women in Computing in 2004, as well as the Computing Research Association's Service Award, the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and the Department of Defense Award for Distinguished Public Service. The U.S. Navy named a seamount in the North Pacific Ocean (51 25 N and 159 10 W) for her. She has been a Monticello Memoirs Fellow.

She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Science Applications International Corporation, BBN Technologies and In-Q-Tel. Other private sector experience includes serving as a founder and vice president of Tartan Laboratories, trustee of the MITRE Corporation, and member of various academic and industrial advisory boards, including the MIT Lincoln Laboratories Advisory Board. Carnegie Mellon University awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology in 1999. She has published more than 40 technical articles and two books in the area of computer software and systems and cyber-security.

Dr. Jones holds an A.B. from Rice University in mathematics, a master of arts from The University of Texas at Austin in literature, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Her husband, Professor Wm. A. Wulf, is the President of the National Academy of Engineering and the AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. They have two daughters, one living in the Seattle area and one in Rockville, Maryland.

Daniel E. Atkins is a Professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor. In June 2006 he began an appointment at the National Science Foundation as the inaugural Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (http://nsf.gov/oci/).

He began his research career in the area of computer architecture and did pioneering work in high-speed computer arithmetic and parallel computer architecture. He has served as Dean of the College of Engineering and more recently as the founding Dean of the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The School has been a catalyst for creating an international Information School (I-school) movement. He was founding Director of the Alliance for Community Technology (ACT) an international partnership with philanthropy for research and development in the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to further the mission of educational and other non-profit organizations.

Dr. Atkins does research and teaching in the area of distributed knowledge communities and open learning resources. He has directed several large experimental digital library projects as well as projects to explore the socio-technical design and application of ÒcollaboratoriesÓ for scientific research. He served as Chair of the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure. The Panel issued a landmark report in February 2003 recommending a major Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Program intended to revolutionize science and engineering research and education. The report has catalyzed new priorities and the new Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the NSF.

Atkins also serves regularly on panels of the National Academies exploring issues such as scholarship in the digital age, the future of scholarly communication, and the impact of information technology on the future of higher education. He is co-author of Higher Education in the Digital Age: Technology Issues and Strategies for American Colleges and Universities. He has served as an international consultant to industry, foundations, educational institutions, and government.

Dane Skow is the director of the TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group, responsible for infrastructure and coordination of the NSF-sponsored TeraGrid. Dane is also a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and a computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. Prior to his current positions, Dane spent 16 years at Fermilab where he served as department head for operating systems support, deputy computer security executive, and coordinator for Tevatron Run II Joint Projects. Since 2002, Dane has been active in the Grid community serving on the leadership teams of the Global Grid Forum, Open Science Grid, and Particle Physics Data Grid. He remains active in the international, inter-grid collaborative framework development. Dane has a Ph.D. in high energy physics from the University of Rochester.

Charlie Catlett is chief information officer and division director of the Computing and Information Systems Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Charlie also chairs the TeraGrid Resource Provider Forum and works with the TeraGrid in a strategic advisory role. Prior to joining Argonne in 1999, Charlie was the chief technology officer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he had worked since 1985. From 1999 to 2004, Charlie directed the I-WIRE optical network project, deploying optical fiber infrastructure to interconnect ten locations in the state of Illinois. During this time, he also founded the Global Grid Forum, an international technical standards body with participants from more than 40 countries. In 1996, Charlie was a co-investigator, along with Larry Smarr, Rick Stevens, Dan Reed and Ian Foster, of the $180M NCSA Alliance project, where the term “Grid” was first coined. In 1992, Charlie and Larry Smarr co-authored the seminal paper “Metacomputing,” which initiated what became the concept of “Grid” computing. Charlie is a computer engineering graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Philip Maechling is the Information Technology Architect at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) and is currently the Project Manager on the NSF-funded project called "A Petascale Cyberfacility for Physics-based Seismic Hazard Analysis." With SCEC since 2002, Mr. Maechling has led the development of an integrated geophysical simulation modeling framework called the SCEC Community Modeling Environment (CME) that automates the process of selecting, configuring, and executing numerical models of earthquake processes. The SCEC CME system integrates high performance Geoscientific application programs into a distributed, grid-based, scientific workflow system that provides scientists with the ability to perform large-scale and highly complex research simulations and to organize and analyze the simulation results. Prior to his role at SCEC, Philip worked as a Member of the Professional Staff in the Caltech seismological laboratory where he coordinated the development of the next generation real-time earthquake monitoring system for southern California called the TriNet system. Philip has authored and co-authored several Geoscientific research publications on topics such as probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and large-scale earthquake wave propagation simulations as well as journal articles and book chapters on computer science research topics including distributed object technology, grid computing, large-scale data management, and scientific workflow technologies.

Raymond (Ray) Rose is co-founder and president of Rose & Smith Associates, a consulting group dedicated to sharing the principles of successful online learning and the innovative use of technology in education settings. Formerly, he was vice president of The Concord Consortium, a non-profit educational research and development group that guides schools nationally and internationally to realize the educational promise of technology.

Ray's strengths are in his innovative use of technology and online education. He first began defining and building a method of creating online learning communities in the mid-1990s. He helped envision, create, and administer The Virtual High School, considered the first of its kind in the United States; the program began the virtual school movement, which has made a monumental impact on students, teachers, and the way people think about education. In addition, he has designed, developed, and directed a series of groundbreaking online professional development programs.

Ray works with a diverse range of organizations and institutions, including K-12 educators, college and university programs, policy makers, and leaders in online learning, to help shape the nature of e-learning efforts in the United States. His passion is using technology to make learning work for all students.

TeraGrid is pleased to announce Paul Strong as an invited speaker for TeraGrid '07. Mr. Strong, a distinguished engineer at eBay Research Labs, is focused on enterprise grid architectures and technologies, and is driving the long-term vision and strategy for eBay's infrastructure and enterprise management in this context. Prior to joining eBay, Strong was a systems architect at Sun Microsystems where he focused on grid standards and the N1 product set. As part of the original N1 team, he co-authored Building N1 Grid Solutions (Prentice Hall, 2004). Paul is currently serving as the vice chair of the Open Grid Forum (OGF).

eBay operates tens of thousands of servers around the globe and considers its entire production infrastructure to be a Grid, i.e. it is viewed as a system hosting massively distributed compute and transaction intensive services and is managed holistically. The company has made great strides toward reducing the management costs of this infrastructure, and is embarking on the next generation of tools to satisfy their needs. Existing improvements include a faster and more efficient software build environment (a traditional compute farm type of Grid) integrated with automatic code rollout tools for pushing new code onto the site on a weekly basis. Currently, eBay Research Labs is working with various research and standards organizations to further advances in grid management at eBay and across the industry.

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