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==Honors== Foster's honours include the [[Gordon Bell Prize]] for high-performance computing (2001),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mcs.anl.gov/~pieper/SUCCESS/gordon01.html|title=Researchers Win Gordon Bell Prize for 2001|publisher=Argonne National Laboratory|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref> the [[Lovelace Medal]] of the [[British Computer Society]] (2002),<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/02/021021.lovelace.shtml|title=Ian Foster to receive 2002 Lovelace Medal from British Computer Society|publisher=University of Chicago|date=21 October 2002|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref> an honorary [[Doctor of Science]] from the University of Canterbury in 2005,<ref>{{cite web |title=Hon doc β Professor Ian Foster |url= https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/alumni/our-alumni/uc-hon-docs/ian-foster/ |publisher=[[University of Canterbury]] |access-date=18 May 2021}}</ref> the IEEE [[Tsutomu Kanai Award]] (2011),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/profiles/ian-foster|title=Ian T. Foster|date=8 June 2018 |publisher=IEEE Computer Society|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref> the IEEE Computer Society [[Charles Babbage]] Award,<ref>{{cite news|date=7 March 2019|access-date=10 January 2020|url= https://www.computer.org/press-room/2019-news/2019-charles-babbage-award-ian-foster|title=Ian Foster Named Recipient of 2019 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award|publisher=IEEE Computer Society}}</ref> (with [[Carl Kesselman]]) the IEEE Computer Society Harry H Goode Memorial Award (2020),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.computer.org/press-room/2020-news/foster-and-kesselman-to-receive-2020-ieee-cs-society-goode-memorial-award|title=Dr. Ian Foster and Dr. Carl Kesselman to Receive 2020 IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award|publisher=IEEE Computer Society|date=3 March 2020|access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref> the [[IEEE Internet Award]] (2023),{{efn|Alongside [[Carl Kesselman]]; the citation reads: "For contributions to the design, deployment, and application of practical Internet-scale global computing platforms.<ref name="IEEE Internet Award">{{cite web |title=IEEE Internet Award |url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients/internet-rl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216193827/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients/internet-rl.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 December 2021 |publisher=[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] |access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref>}}<ref name="IEEE Internet Award" /> and the ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award (2022).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/kennedy|title=Ian Foster Recognized with ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award}}</ref> He was elected Fellow of the [[British Computer Society]] in 2001, [[Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science]] in 2003,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031106/aaas.shtml|author=Steve Koppes|title=Nine on faculty elected 2003 AAAS fellows|work=University of Chicago Chronicle|volume=78|issue=4|date=6 November 2003}}</ref> and in 2009, a Fellow of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.anl.gov/mcs/article/argonnes-ian-foster-named-fellow-of-the-association-for-computing-machinery|title=Argonne's Ian Foster named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery|publisher=Argonne National Laboratory|date=1 December 2009|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref> who named him the inaugural recipient of the high-performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC) achievement award in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Achievement Award|work=HPDC 2012 web site|url=http://www.hpdc.org/2012/program/keynote-speakers/#achievement-award-talk|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=20 years of grid computing|author=Ian Foster|work=HPDC 2012 award talk|date=22 June 2012|url=http://www.hpdc.org/2012/site/files/HPDC2012-Foster.pdf|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref> In 2017, he was recognised with the Euro-Par Achievement Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Euro-Par Achievement Award|url=https://2020.euro-par.org/?q=node/7|access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref>
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