Biography
Jack Joseph Dongarra FRS [ 8 ] (born July 18, 1950) 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 . [ 9 ] He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory , 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 . [ 10 ] He served as a faculty fellow at the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (2014–2018). [ 11 ] Dongarra is the founding director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. [ 12 ] He was the recipient of the Turing Award in 2021. Dongarra received a BSc degree in mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a MSc degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. In 1980, he received PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico under the supervision of Cleve Moler . [ 1 ] Dongarra worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra , parallel computing , the 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. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open-source software packages and systems: EISPACK , LINPACK , the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS), Linear Algebra Package ( LAPACK ), ScaLAPACK , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), Message Passing Interface (MPI), [ 4 ] NetSolve, [ 5 ] TOP500 , Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS), [ 6 ] High-Performance Conjugate Gradient ( HPCG ) [ 13 ] Fields: Computer Science, Computational science, Parallel computing Education: Chicago State University BS Illinois Institute of Technology MS University of New Mexico PhD Award Citation: Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2023) ACM Turing Award (2021) IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (2020) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2019) SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2019) ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award (2013) IEEE Charles Babbage Award (2011) SIAM SIAG/Supercomputing Career Prize (2010) SIAM Fellow (2009) IEEE Medal of Excellence in Scalable Computing (2008) IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award (2003) Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2001) ACM Fellow (2001) IEEE Fellow (1999) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994)
About the Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."
Quick Facts
- Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
- Presented by: ACM
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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)