About Jack Dongarra
Jack Joseph Dongarra is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He holds the position Turing Fellowship in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, and is an adjunct professor and teacher in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He served as a faculty fellow at the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (2014–2018). Dongarra is the founding director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He was the recipient of the Turing Award in 2021. With Eric Grosse, Dongarra pioneered the distribution via email and the web of numeric open-source code collected in Netlib. In 2004, Dongarra was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award for his contributions in the application of high-performance computers using innovative approaches. In 2010, Dongarra was the first recipient of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Career Prize. In 2008, he was the recipient of the first IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing.
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