SC11 to Honor HPC Innovators with IEEE and ACM Award

By DE Editors

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society will honor three computer science innovators who have helped to advance the development of computing architectures, software and interactive tools, when SC11 convenes in Seattle in November. Now in its 24th year, SC11 will take place Nov. 12-18 and is expected to bring more than 10,000 professionals from academia, industry and government to Seattle.
 
Charles Seitz, one of the founders of Myricom Inc., and president and CEO of Myricom until last year, is the winner of the 2011 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award. Known as an architect and designer of a wide range of computing and communications systems, Seitz will be recognized for “innovations in high performance message passing architectures and networks.”

Cleve Moler, a mathematician and computational scientist specializing in numerical analysis, is the recipient of the 2011 Sidney Fernbach award in recognition of “fundamental contributions to linear algebra, mathematical software, and enabling tools for computational science.”

Susan L. Graham, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is the 2011 Ken Kennedy Award winner for her contributions to computer programming tools that have significantly advanced software development.

All three awards will be presented at 8:30 a.m. prior to the keynote address at SC11 on Tuesday, Nov. 15 in the Sheraton Hotel Ballroom. The three awardees will give presentations to SC11 participants on Wednesday, Nov. 16, beginning at 10:30 a.m.

For more information, visit the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society.

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