CRPC Awards and Honors

Computer scientists Ian Foster of Argonne National Laboratory and Carl Kesselman of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute have won the Global Information Infrastructure Next Generation Award. The award recognizes and promotes best practices and new models in the use of Internet and networking technologies. Foster and Kesselman were honored for the Globus Ubiquitous Supercomputing Testbed (GUSTO), a prototype for future computational grids that will make computing power available to users on demand the way power grids make electricity available. GUSTO is part of Globus, a research and development project advancing the technology and application of high-performance distributed computing by developing new software tools.

Mary F. Wheeler, Director of the Center for Subsurface Modeling at the University of Texas, has been named to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made important contributions to engineering theory and practice, including significant contributions to literature, and those who have demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. Wheeler is honored for her work in computer simulation of subsurface flow and the underlying mathematical algorithms.

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