Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow, and director of the Data Science and Learning Division, at Argonne National Laboratory. Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago.

“Global Services for Global Science”

Thursday 16 February, 2:45pm – 3.15pm (TBC)

Abstract

We are on the verge of a global communications revolution based on ubiquitous high-speed 5G, 6G, and free-space optics technologies. The resulting global communications fabric can enable new ultra-collaborative research modalities that pool sensors, data, and computation with unprecedented flexibility and focus. But realizing these modalities requires new services to overcome the tremendous friction currently associated with any actions that traverse institutional boundaries. The solution, I argue, is new global science services to mediate between user intent and infrastructure realities. I describe our experiences building and operating such services and the principles that we have identified as needed for successful deployment and operations.

Bio

Ian Foster is Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow, and director of the Data Science and Learning Division, at Argonne National Laboratory, and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He has a BSc degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a PhD from Imperial College, United Kingdom, both in computer science. His research is in distributed, parallel, and data-intensive computing technologies, and their applications to scientific problems. He is a fellow of the AAAS, ACM, BCS, and IEEE, and recently received the ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy and IEEE Internet awards.