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| Robert Grossman | Robert Grossman is the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Computing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Lab performs research, sponsor standards, manages an international testbed for data intensive computing, and engages in outreach activities in the areas of data mining and data intensive computing. He is also the Managing Partner of Open Data Group, which he founded in 2002. Open Data Group provides management consulting and outsourced services focused on analytics. He is also an Associate Senior Fellow at the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology at the University of Chicago. |
| Charles P. Holmes, Vice-Chair | Dr. Charles P. Holmes provided oversight and program guidance from 1997 to 2008, at NASA HQ, to the NASA's Heliophysics Great Observatory (HPGO), a suite of operating science missions observing the sun, the interplanetary solar wind and their interactions with the Earth. The HPGO program included the data environment that retained and broadly distributed data gathered by the science instruments of the HPGO. The HPGO also incorporated NASA's participation in the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) and sponsored two annual competitions for research from HPGO data. |
| Alan Paller | Alan Paller is SANS research director. He is responsible for consensus research initiatives including the Internet Storm Center and the most dangerous new attack vectors. He chairs the Application Security Summit and the SCADA Security Summit and edits NewsBites, the weekly security news summary 200,000 people. President Clinton named Alan one of the original members of the National Infrastructure Assurance Council, and the Federal CIO Council chose him as its Azimuth Award winner recognizing his singular vision and outstanding service to federal information technology. |
| Larry Smarr, Chair | Larry Smarr became founding director in 2000 of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a University of California San Diego/UC Irvine partnership. He holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Smarr serves as PI on the NSF's OptIPuter and the Moore Foundation's CAMERA microbial metagenomics projects, as well as co-PI on the NSF GreenLight Project. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006 he received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his lifetime achievements in distributed computing systems. |
| Alexander Szalay | Alexander Szalay is the Alumni Centennial Professor of Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is a cosmologist, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. He is the architect for the Science Archive of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He is Project Director of the NSF-funded National Virtual Observatory. In 2003 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received an Alexander Von Humboldt Award in Physical Sciences, in 2008 a Microsoft Award for Technical Computing. In 2008 he became Doctor Honoris Clausa of the Eötvös University, Budapest. |
| Karen Harper IT Workforce Manager NASA |
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