1. Anthony John Grenville Hey was born on 17 August 1946 and was vice-president of Microsoft Research Connections, a division of Microsoft Research, until his departure in 2014.
20 Facts About Tony Hey
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Tony Hey was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and the University of Oxford.
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Tony Hey graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics in 1967, and a Doctor of Philosophy in theoretical physics in 1970 supervised by P K Kabir.
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Tony Hey was a student of Worcester College, Oxford and St John's College, Oxford.
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From 1970 through 1972 Tony Hey was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology.
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Tony Hey then moved to Geneva, Switzerland and worked as a fellow at CERN for two years.
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Tony Hey worked about thirty years as an academic at University of Southampton, starting in 1974 as a particle physicist.
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Tony Hey spent 1978 as a visiting fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Tony Hey worked with British semiconductor company Inmos on the Transputer project in the 1980s.
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Tony Hey switched to computer science in 1985, and in 1986 became professor of computation in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton.
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Tony Hey then worked with Jack Dongarra, Rolf Hempel and David Walker, to define the Message Passing Interface which became a de facto open standard for parallel scientific computing.
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Tony Hey led the UK's e-Science Programme from March 2001 to June 2005.
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Tony Hey was appointed corporate vice-president of technical computing at Microsoft on 27 June 2005.
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Since 2015, Tony Hey has held the position of Chief Data Scientist at the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council, and is a Senior Data Science Fellow at the University of Washington eScience Institute.
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Tony Hey is the editor of the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.
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Tony Hey has authored or co-authored a number of books including The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, The Quantum Universe, The New Quantum Universe, The Feynman Lectures on Computation and Einstein's Mirror.
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Tony Hey's latest book is a popular book on computer science called The Computing Universe: A Journey through a Revolution.
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Tony Hey had an open scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1967, won the Scott Prize for Physics in 1967, senior scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, in 1968 and was a Harkness Fellow from 1970 through 1972.
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Tony Hey was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005.
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Tony Hey was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1996, the Institute of Physics and the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1996 and the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2001.