Professor Jack Dongarra
Recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Emeritus Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, Distinguished Research Participant at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Turing Fellow at the University of Manchester’s School of Mathematics, and Adjunct Professor at Rice University’s Computer Science Department.
Professor Jack Dongarra has been involved in the design and development of high performance mathematical software for the past 40 years, especially regarding linear algebra libraries for parallel machines, vector processors and cloud environments. His work with numerical and communication libraries as well as his other research efforts have seen him win numerous awards, and earned him membership in the US National Academy of Engineering, appointed as a foreign fellow of the Royal Society in the UK, and as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Science.
In additional to his work in respect to numerical libraries, Dongarra has been a major driver in the creation of de facto standards (PVM and MPI) that have been widely used in computer and computational science