【講演概要】Computer science and engineering is going through many exciting changes. The end of Dennard scaling has led to innovations in architecture. The growth of computing power has enabled a revolution in machine learning and AI, as well as new programming approaches and use models. Radically new approaches to computing are on the horizon. At the same time, the practice of the profession is changing. Open access is changing how publications work. The pandemic has accelerated changes in conferences and other ways in which we interact. Diversity, equity, and inclusion in our community are recognized challenges that we must address. In this talk, I'll describe how the IEEE Computer Society is looking to the future, and give an example from my own research of the vital role that professional societies play in advancing computer science and engineering.
【略歴】Dr. William “Bill” Gropp is Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and holds the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1982. He was on the faculty of Computer Science at Yale from 1982–1990. From 1990–2007, he was a member of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, including serving as associate division director.
Dr. Gropp is the 2022 IEEE Computer Society President. He has served the Computer Society as 2021 President-elect, 2019-2020 Vice President for Technical and Conference Activities, and has been a member of the Board of Governors since 2017. As chair of Technical Program (2009), Finance (2011), and as General Chair (2013) of the SC conference, which at over 12,000 attendees is the largest conference co-sponsored by the Computer Society, Gropp has experience leading volunteers (almost 600 for SC) and running financially successful technical conferences.
He played a major role in the development of the MPI message-passing standard, used around the world to program high performance computing systems. He is co-author of MPICH, a widely used implementation of MPI, and has written many books and papers on MPI. He is also one of the designers of the PETSc parallel numerical library and has developed parallel algorithms for the solution of linear and nonlinear equations. Dr. Gropp co-chaired the National Academy’s Committee on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science.
Dr. Gropp is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and SIAM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the Sidney Fernbach Award from the Computer Society in 2008 and the ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award “for highly influential contributions to the programmability of high-performance parallel and distributed computers, and extraordinary service to the profession” in 2016.