Larry Smarr holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) in UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. He was previously Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) from 2000-2020, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1985-2000, and the National Computational Science Alliance from 1997-2000. In 2006 he received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his lifetime achievements in distributed computing systems and in 2014 the Golden Goose Award. He served on the NASA Advisory Council to 4 NASA Administrators, was chair of the NASA Information Technology Infrastructure Committee, and the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, and for 8 years he was a member of the NIH Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, serving 3 directors.
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Dr. Larry Smarr is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. From 2000-2020, he served as the founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership, while holding the Harry E. Gruber Professorship in UCSD’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
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NAME Larry L. Smarr, Ph.D POSITION TITLE Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego. EDUCATION/TRAINING INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE (if applicable) YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY University of Missouri B.A. 1970 Physics University of Missouri M.S. 1970 Physics Stanford University M.S. 1972 Physics University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. 1975 Physics