Ian Foster

Ian Foster is director of the Computation Institute, a joint institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, where he is also the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service professor of Computer Science and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow. He received a BSc (Hons I) degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD from Imperial College, United Kingdom, both in computer science. His research deals with distributed, parallel, and data-intensive computing technologies, and innovative applications of those technologies to scientific problems. Methods and software he has developed underpin many large national and international cyberinfrastructures. Dr. Foster is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the British Computer Society. His awards include the British Computer Society’s award for technical innovation, the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Next Generation award, the British Computer Society’s Lovelace Medal, R&D Magazine’s Innovator of the Year, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Canterbury.

Publications

Towards Data Intensive Many-Task Computing
Towards Data Intensive Many-Task Computing
Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, Yong Zhao, Alex Szalay, Philip Little, Christopher M. Moretti, Amitabh Chaudhary, Douglas Thain. © 2012. 46 pages.
Many-task computing aims to bridge the gap between two computing paradigms, high throughput computing and high performance computing. Traditional techniques to support many-task...
Foreword
Foreword
Tim Clark, Ian Foster. © 2009. 3 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine, and Healthcare.