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Appendix A: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 33-42

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... She and her students have built several interactive programming environments, yielding a variety of incremental analysis algorithms. Her current projects include the Titanium system for language and compiler support of explicitly parallel programs and the Harmonia framework for high-level interactive software development.
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... He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, use of advanced computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the development, testing, and documentation of high-quality mathematical software.
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... She is currently serving as chair of the National Science Foundation's Computer Information Sciences and Engineering Directorate's Advisory Committee, as a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Army Research Laboratory, as the editor in chief of ACM's Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, and as an elected member of the Computing Research Association's board of directors. In the past she has served as an elected member of the IEEE Computer Society's board of governors, of ACM's council, and as vice president of the ACM.
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... , where he was assistant vice president for scientific computing, director of Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research, and faculty associate in scientific computing. He also served as principal investigator for the Distributed Terascale facility and Extensible Terascale facility projects at Caltech and was coprincipal investigator of the National Virtual Observatory Project.
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... Dr. Press was assistant professor of physics at Princeton University and Richard Chace Tolman Research fellow in theoretical physics at Caltech, where he received a Ph.D.
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... Under the leadership of Warren Washington of NCAR, he participated in the development of the DOE Parallel Climate Model using the Los Alamos Parallel Ocean Program and a parallel sea ice model from the Naval Postgraduate School. That climate model has been ported to numerous parallel architectures and used as a workhorse climate model in numerous scientific applications.
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... For over 13 years, he managed and led supercomputing research and applications development for NSA, sponsoring high-performance computing and mass storage research (both independently and jointly with DARPA and NASA) at many U.S.
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... Phil Hilliard is a research associate with the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. He provides research support as part of the professional staff and is working on projects focusing on telecommunications research, supercomputing, and dependable systems.


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