Tony Hey

Professor Tony Hey
Tony Hey talking at Pop!Tech 2009
Born	Anthony John Grenville Hey (1946-08-17) 17 August 1946 (age 70) England, UK
Nationality	British
Fields	Parallel computing e-Science High performance computing (HPC)
Institutions	University of Southampton Microsoft Research Caltech CERN Inmos University of Oxford
Alma mater	Worcester College, Oxford St John's College, Oxford
Thesis	Experimental studies in elementary particle physics (1971)
Notable awards	CBE (2005) PhD (1971) FREng FIET FInstP FBCS
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Professor Anthony John Grenville Hey CBE FREng FIET FInstP FBCS (born 17 August 1946) was Vice President of Microsoft Research Connections, a division of Microsoft Research, until his departure in 2014.

Hey was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and the University of Oxford. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1967, and a Doctor of Philosophy in theoretical physics in 1970, from Worcester College, Oxford and St John's College, Oxford.

From 1970 through 1972 Hey was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Moving to Pasadena, California, he worked with Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann, both winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. He then moved to Geneva, Switzerland and worked as a fellow at CERN (the European organization for nuclear research) for two years. Hey worked about thirty years as an academic at University of Southampton, starting in 1974 as a particle physicist. He spent 1978 as a visiting fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For 1981 he returned to Caltech as a visiting research professor. There he learned of Carver Mead's work on very-large-scale integration and become interested in applying parallel computing techniques to large-scale scientific simulations.