Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory
Fireside
chat with Jack Dongarra
Tellabs – Kaplan Institute
April 12th, 2023 at
4:30pm-5:30pm
Moderated by Ryan Manthy
Register for free at https://tinyurl.com/fireside-dongarra
Join us
for a fireside chat and Q&A with the Computer Science titan, Jack Dongarra.
This event is hosted by the Computer Science Department.
Learn
about the education, career path, mindset, and strategies that led Jack to
becoming a Turing Award winner, the award that is often referred to as the
“Nobel Prize of Computing”. Jack’s pioneering contributions to numerical
algorithms and libraries that enabled HPC software to keep pace with
exponential hardware improvements for over four decades has, through the years,
accelerated HPC. You won’t want to miss this rare opportunity to hear
first-hand from one of the giants in the field of computing!
You can
learn more about Jack’s award-winning, pioneering work by attending the ACM
A.M. Turing Award Lecture at Illinois Tech earlier in the day on April 12th,
at 12:45pm in Hermann Hall as in this article from The New
York Times. You can also see the original Turing Award Lecture presented at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2022 conference.
We will
be chatting about his journey of becoming a successful researcher and computer
scientist and his advice for young scientists.
We will
also have time at the end for audience Q&A. Lunch will be provided first
come, first serve.
Date: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location: Kaplan Institute, Tellabs
The event will be not be
streamed virtually.