Editing Ian Foster (computer scientist) (section)

==Education and career==
Foster was born in [[Wellington]], New Zealand, in 1959. He was educated at [[Wellington College, Wellington|Wellington College]] and the [[University of Canterbury]], followed by the [[Department of Computing, Imperial College London|Department of Computing]], [[Imperial College London]].

From 2006 to 2016, he was director of the Computation Institute (CI), a joint project between the [[University of Chicago]], and [[Argonne National Laboratory]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ian Foster appointed to third term as director of Computation Institute|url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/ian-foster-appointed-third-term-director-computation-institute|date=24 August 2012|publisher=University of Chicago|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref> 
CI brings together computational scientists and discipline leaders to work on projects with computation as a key component.

He is currently Director of the Data Science and Learning Division at [[Argonne National Laboratory]], a unit established to tackle advanced scientific problems where data analysis and artificial intelligence can provide critical insights and accelerate discovery.