Ian Foster (computer scientist)

Ian Foster
Ian Foster
Born	1 January 1959; Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality	New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Canterbury; Imperial College London (PhD);
Known for	Strand; Grid Computing; Globus Toolkit; Globus service;
Awards	Lovelace Medal (2002); Gordon Bell Prize; Tsutomu Kanai Award (2011); Charles Babbage Award (2019);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science; Grid computing;
Institutions	University of Chicago; Argonne National Laboratory;
Thesis	Parlog as a systems programming language (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Keith Clark
Website	ianfoster.typepad.com; www.cs.uchicago.edu/directory/ian-foster; labs.globus.org;

Ian Tremere Foster (born 1 January 1959) is a New Zealand-American computer scientist. He is a distinguished fellow, senior scientist, and director of the Data Science and Learning division at Argonne National Laboratory, and a professor in the department of computer science at the University of Chicago.

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