Editing Ian Foster (computer scientist) (section)

{{Short description|New Zealand-American computer scientist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox scientist
|name = Ian Foster
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|1|1|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Wellington]], New Zealand
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|death_place =
|nationality = New Zealand
|field = {{Plainlist|
*[[Computer Science]]
*[[Grid computing]]<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1177/109434200101500302|title=The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations|journal=International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications|volume=15|issue=3|pages=200–222|year=2001|author=Foster, I.|arxiv=cs/0103025|bibcode=2001cs........3025F|s2cid=28969310}}</ref>}}
|known_for  = {{Plainlist|
*[[Strand (programming language)|Strand]]
*[[Grid Computing]]
*Globus Toolkit
*[[Globus service]]}}
|work_institution = {{Plainlist|
*[[University of Chicago]]
*[[Argonne National Laboratory]]}}
|alma_mater =  {{Plainlist|
*[[University of Canterbury]]
*[[Imperial College London]] (PhD)}}
|doctoral_advisor = [[Keith Clark (computer scientist)|Keith Clark]]
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|thesis_title = Parlog as a systems programming language
|thesis_year = 1988
|thesis_url = https://archive.org/details/parlogasasystemp037550mbp
|prizes = {{Plainlist|
*[[Lovelace Medal]] <small>(2002)</small>
*[[Gordon Bell Prize]]
*[[Tsutomu Kanai Award]] <small>(2011)</small>
*[[International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium#IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award|Charles Babbage Award]] <small>(2019)</small>}}
|website = {{Plainlist|
*{{URL|http://ianfoster.typepad.com}}
*{{URL|https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/directory/ian-foster}}
*{{URL|http://labs.globus.org}}
}}
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'''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]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1177/109434209701100205|title=Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit|journal=International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications|volume=11|issue=2|pages=115|year=1997|author1=Foster, I.|author2=Kesselman, C.|citeseerx=10.1.1.48.6898|s2cid=438757}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/cpe.3101|title=Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences Workshop 2012|journal=Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience|volume=26|issue=6|pages=1231|year=2014|author1=Qiu, J.|author2=Foster, I.|author3=Goble, C.|s2cid=26141575|authorlink3=Carole Goble|doi-access=}}</ref>