Larry Smarr

Larry Smarr is director of Calit2, Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD, and PI on the CAMERA grant. Smarr is also PI on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project and co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype. As founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the National Computational Science Alliance, Smarr drove major contributions to development of the national high-performance computing infrastructure, the Internet, the Web, the emerging Grid, and scientific visualization. Recently, he has become a member of the Networking and Information Technology Advisory Group to provide input and feedback to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, which is undertaking a review of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program.

Smarr formerly was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and the NASA Advisory Council. He also formerly served as chair of NASA's Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee. His views have been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, and Business Week, and he's frequently invited to give keynote addresses at professional conferences and to popular audiences.