Larry Smarr

Larry Smarr
Larry Smarr viewing an ImmersaDesk
Born
Larry Lee Smarr

(1948-10-16)October 16, 1948
EducationUniversity of Missouri (BA, MS)
University of Texas at Austin (PhD)
Known forQuantified Self[1][2]
Metacomputing[3]
AwardsMember of the National Academy of Engineering
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Delmer S. Fahrney Medal (1990)
Golden Goose Award (2014)
Scientific career
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Yale University
Harvard University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of California, San Diego.
ThesisThe Structure of General Relativity with a Numerical Illustration: The Collision of Two Black Holes (1975)
Websitelsmarr.calit2.net

Larry Lee Smarr is a physicist and leading pioneer in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure.[4] He is currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, and was the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, as well as the Harry E. Gruber Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies at the Jacobs School of Engineering.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Smarr has been among the most important synthesizers and conductors of innovation, discovery, and commercialization of new technologies – including areas as disparate as the Web browser and personalized medicine.[4] In his career, Smarr has made pioneering breakthroughs in research on black holes, spearheaded the use of supercomputers for academic research, and presided over some of the major innovations that created the modern Internet, including overseeing the development of NCSA Telnet,[17] NCSA Mosaic,[4][13][17][18] and NCSA HTTPd,[17] during his time as the founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, one of the five first national supercomputing centers in the United States. For nearly 20 years, he has been building a new model for academic research based on interdisciplinary collaboration.[4]

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  3. ^ Smarr, Larry; Catlett, Charles E. (1992). "Metacomputing". Communications of the ACM. 35 (6): 44. doi:10.1145/129888.129890.
  4. ^ a b c d Fisher, Lawrence M. "Why Larry Smarr Is Pioneering Collaborative Innovation". Strategy+business. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Pioneering Scientist and Innovator Larry Smarr Retires". today.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Grids in Context" in Carl Kesselman; Foster, Ian (2003). The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure. San Diego: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1-55860-933-4.
  7. ^ Members of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee. Information Technology Research: Investing in Our Future, a Report to the President of the United States, 1999.
  8. ^ "Extraterrestrial Computing: Exploring the Universe with a Supercomputer". Chapter 8 of Very large Scale Computation in the 21st Century, Jill P. Mesirov, ed., Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 1991.
  9. ^ Larry Smarr. "How Supercomputers are Transforming Science," Encyclopædia Britannica Yearbook, 1991.
  10. ^ Smarr, Larry L.; Kaufmann, William J. (1993). Supercomputing and the transformation of science. New York: Scientific American Library. ISBN 978-0-7167-5038-3.
  11. ^ Larry Smarr author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  12. ^ Larry Smarr at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  13. ^ a b Internet Pioneers: Dr. Larry Smarr - How the Internet Happened
  14. ^ Larry Smarr publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  15. ^ Larry Smarr's publications in Google Scholar
  16. ^ Larry Smarr's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  17. ^ a b c Meek, Dina (2 February 2022). "NCSA Reflects on 35 Years as a Supercomputing Powerhouse". NCSA. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  18. ^ Severance, Charles (2013). "Larry Smarr: Building Mosaic". Computer. 46 (4): 6–8. doi:10.1109/MC.2013.140. ISSN 0018-9162.