Harvey Newman (Sc. D, MIT 1974) is Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and a Caltech faculty member since 1982. He co-led the MARK J Collaboration that discovered the gluon, the carrier of the strong force, at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg in 1979. He has had a leading role in the development, operation and management of international networks and collaborative systems serving the High Energy and Nuclear Physics communities since 1982, and served on the Technical Advisory Group for the NSFNet in 1986. He originated the Data Grid Hierarchy concept and the globally distributed Computing Model adopted by the four LHC high energy physics collaborations in 1998-2000. He is the PI of the LHCNet project, linking the US and CERN in support of the LHC physics program, a PI of the DOE-funded Particle Physics Data Grid Project (PPDG) and a Co-PI of the NSF-funded International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL). He co-founded and chairs the Internet2 High Energy and Nuclear Physics Working Group, is a member of the Internet2 Applications Strategy Council, and he chairs the Standing Committee on Inter-Regional Connectivity of ICFA (the International Committee on Future Accelerators). He is Vice Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder of VRVS Global Corporation (2001 -). He has led the US part of the CMS Collaboration (400 physicists at 38 US Institutions) as US CMS Collaboration Board Chair since 1998. He leads the Caltech team that won the Internet2 Land Speed records in February, May, and October 2003, listed in the Guinness Book of Records, and captured the SuperComputing 2003 Bandwidth Challenge Award in November 2003.
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  Ian Foster  on Current and Future Grid Technologies



Ian Foster is Associate Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory and the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. His research interests are in distributed and parallel computing and computational science, and he has published six books and over 200 articles and technical reports on these and related topics. His Distributed Systems Laboratory is home to the Globus Toolkit, widely used open source Grid software, and also plays a leading role in projects applying Grid technologies to scientific and engineering problems, in such fields as high energy physics, climate data analysis, and earthquake engineering. Foster is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the British Computer Society. His awards include the British Computer Society's award for technical innovation, the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Next Generation award, the British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal, and Research and Development Magazine's Innovator of the Year.
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  John Huth  on how particle physics experiments are driving novel developments in computing that have the potential to transform society.

John Huth is an experimental particle physicist, who works in the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in Geneva Switzerland. This experiment is designed to explore the unification of the fundamental forces of nature and the origins of mass in the universe. Professor Huth is Chairman of the Physics Department at Harvard University and a leader of the United States physics program to explore the origins of mass. Professor Huth obtained his PhD in Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1984, where he worked on an experiment called the Time Projection Chamber. After that, he moved to the Chicago-land area and worked on the Collider Detector at Fermilab. There, first as a Wilson Fellow and then as a staff scientist, he studied the strong interaction: the force that holds the nucleus together, probing the structure of matter at the shortest distance scales yet uncovered. He was a leader in the discovery of the last of the known quarks: the top quark, which has such a high mass compared with other matter, that it is a mystery. A member of the Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee, he helped craft the creation of the long-baseline neutrino oscillation program. In addition, he served on the “Drell” subpanel that recommended the participation of the United States in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider. After joining the faculty Harvard, he became a leader in the construction of the ATLAS experiment and is currently working with computer scientists to create workable grid computing for large scientific collaborations. As a side-interest, he has developed courses in the Physics of Sound and Music. John is the Chair and Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He is also the Associate Project Manager for physics and computing for the US ATLAS Collaboration. Professor Huth was a member of the team that discovered the top quark at the Collider Detector at Fermilab.
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  Alex Szalay on Grids at the Frontiers of Cosmology

Alex is an Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, and is a PI on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which will ultimately produce a survey of over 100 million celestial objects, providing a unique view of the large scale structure of the universe. Much of his work pioneers the queries of very large datasets, which is a major component of grid computing. Read more on Alex from APS's  People in Physics.
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  Fran Berman on Grids at Scale

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