Jack Dongarra is the American University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee.
13 Facts About Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Turing Fellowship in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, and is an adjunct professor and teacher in the Computer Science Department at Rice University.
Jack Dongarra was the recipient of the Turing Award in 2021.
Jack Dongarra received a BSc degree in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a MSc degree in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973.
Jack Dongarra worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist.
Jack Dongarra specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers.
Jack Dongarra's research includes the development, testing, and documentation of high-quality mathematical software.
Jack Dongarra has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open-source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, Linear Algebra Package, ScaLAPACK, Parallel Virtual Machine, Message Passing Interface, NetSolve, TOP500, Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software, High-Performance Conjugate Gradient and Performance Application Programming Interface.
Jack Dongarra has published approximately 300 articles, papers, reports, and technical memoranda, and he is the co-author of several books.
Jack Dongarra holds appointments with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Manchester, where he has served as a Turing Fellow since 2007.
In 2010, Jack Dongarra was the first recipient of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Career Prize.
Jack Dongarra was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Royal Society.
Jack Dongarra received the 2021 Turing Award for pioneering concepts and methods which resulted in world-changing computations.