Ian Foster
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| Born | 1959 (age 57–58) New Zealand |
| Residence | Chicago, IL, USA |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
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| Thesis | Parlog as a systems programming language (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Keith Clark |
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Ian T. Foster (born 1959 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-American computer scientist. He is a distinguished fellow and senior scientist in the mathematics and computer science division at Argonne National Laboratory, and a professor in the department of computer science at the University of Chicago.
Foster was educated at Wellington College and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and Imperial College London.
In 2006, he was appointed director of the Computation Institute (CI), a joint project between the University of Chicago, and Argonne National Laboratory. CI brings together computational scientists and discipline leaders to work on projects with computation as a key component.
Foster's honors include the Lovelace Medal of the British Computer Society, the Gordon Bell Prize for high-performance computing (2001), and the IEEE Tsutomu Kanai Award (2011). He was elected Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2001, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003, and in 2009, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, who named him the inaugural recipient of the high-performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC) achievement award in 2012.
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