Tony Hey
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Anthony John Grenville Hey CBE
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(born 1946) is a researcher and educator across a range of science and engineering fields.
After training in physics
, he then worked in computer science
and its application to education and other research fields in the US as well as the UK.
He graduated with a B.A. degree in physics
in 1967, and a doctorate
in theoretical physics
in 1970, both from Oxford University.
From 1970 through 1972 he was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology
(Caltech).
Moving to Pasadena, California
, he worked with Richard Feynman
and Murray Gell-Mann
, both winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics
.
He then moved to Geneva, Switzerland and worked as a fellow at CERN
(the European organization for nuclear research) for two years.
Hey worked about thirty years as an academic at University of Southampton
, starting in 1974 as a particle physicist
.
He spent 1978 as a visiting fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.
For 1981 he returned to Caltech as a visiting research professor. There he leared of Carver Mead
's work on very-large-scale integration
and become interested in applying parallel computing
techniques to large-scale scientific simulations.
Hey worked with British semiconductor company INMOS
on the Transputer project in the 1980s.
He switched to computer science
in 1985, and in 1986 became professor of computation in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton. While there, he was promoted to Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science in 1994 and and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science in 1999.
Among his work was "doing research on Unix
with tools like LaTeX
."
In 1990 he was a visiting fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center
of IBM Research
.
He then worked with Jack Dongarra
, Rolf Hempel and David Walker, to define the Message Passing Interface
(MPI) which became a de-facto open standard for parallel scientific computing.
In 1998 he was a visiting research fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
in the USA.
Hey led the UK's e-Science Programme from March 2001 to June 2005.
He was appointed corporate vice-president of technical computing at Microsoft
on 27 June 2005.
Later he became corporate vice president of external research, and in 2011 corporate vice president of Microsoft research connections.
Hey is the editor of the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Among other scientific advisory boards in Europe and the United States, he is a member of the Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee.
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.
Hey was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(CBE) in 2005. He became 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.
In 2007 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Newcastle
.
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
FREng
Royal Academy of Engineering
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
The Institution of Engineering and Technology is a British professional body for those working in engineering and technology in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers , dating back to 1871, and the...
FInstP
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....
FBCS
British Computer Society
The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...
(born 1946) is a researcher and educator across a range of science and engineering fields.
After training in physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, he then worked in computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and its application to education and other research fields in the US as well as the UK.
Biography
Anthony John Grenville Hey was born on 17 August 1946.He graduated with a B.A. degree in physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
in 1967, and a doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
in theoretical physics
Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...
in 1970, both from Oxford University.
From 1970 through 1972 he was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
(Caltech).
Moving to Pasadena, California
Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Although famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet...
, he worked with Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics...
and Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann is an American physicist and linguist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles...
, both winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
.
He then moved to Geneva, Switzerland and worked as a fellow at CERN
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
(the European organization for nuclear research) for two years.
Hey worked about thirty years as an academic at University of Southampton
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...
, starting in 1974 as a particle physicist
Particle physics
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the existence and interactions of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter or radiation. In current understanding, particles are excitations of quantum fields and interact following their dynamics...
.
He spent 1978 as a visiting fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
.
For 1981 he returned to Caltech as a visiting research professor. There he leared of Carver Mead
Carver Mead
Carver Andress Mead is a US computer scientist. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology , having taught there for over 40 years.Mead studied electrical engineering at Caltech, getting...
's work on very-large-scale integration
Very-large-scale integration
Very-large-scale integration is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed. The microprocessor is a VLSI device.The first semiconductor...
and become interested in applying parallel computing
Parallel computing
Parallel computing is a form of computation in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously, operating on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently . There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level,...
techniques to large-scale scientific simulations.
Hey worked with British semiconductor company INMOS
INMOS
Inmos Limited was a British semiconductor company, founded by Iann Barron, with both the head office and the design office at Aztec West in Bristol, it was incorporated in November 1978.- Products :...
on the Transputer project in the 1980s.
He switched to computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
in 1985, and in 1986 became professor of computation in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton. While there, he was promoted to Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science in 1994 and and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science in 1999.
Among his work was "doing research on Unix
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
with tools like LaTeX
LaTeX
LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
."
In 1990 he was a visiting fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for the IBM Research Division.The center is on three sites, with the main laboratory in Yorktown Heights, New York, 38 miles north of New York City, a building in Hawthorne, New York, and offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts.- Overview :The...
of IBM Research
IBM Research
IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects....
.
He then worked with Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra
Jack J. Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Sciencein the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee...
, Rolf Hempel and David Walker, to define the Message Passing Interface
Message Passing Interface
Message Passing Interface is a standardized and portable message-passing system designed by a group of researchers from academia and industry to function on a wide variety of parallel computers...
(MPI) which became a de-facto open standard for parallel scientific computing.
In 1998 he was a visiting research fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...
in the USA.
Hey led the UK's e-Science Programme from March 2001 to June 2005.
He was appointed corporate vice-president of technical computing at Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
on 27 June 2005.
Later he became corporate vice president of external research, and in 2011 corporate vice president of Microsoft research connections.
Hey is the editor of the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Among other scientific advisory boards in Europe and the United States, he is a member of the Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee.
Awards
Hey had an open scholarship to Worcester College, OxfordWorcester College, Oxford
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...
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.
Hey was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
(CBE) in 2005. He became a Fellow of the British Computer Society
British Computer Society
The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...
in 1996, the Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....
and the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Institution of Electrical Engineers
The Institution of Electrical Engineers was a British professional organisation of electronics, electrical, manufacturing, and Information Technology professionals, especially electrical engineers. The I.E.E...
in 1996 and the Royal Academy of Engineering
Royal Academy of Engineering
-Overview: is the UK’s national academy of engineering. The Academy brings together the most successful and talented engineers from across the engineering sectors for a shared purpose: to advance and promote excellence in engineering....
in 2001.
In 2007 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Newcastle
University of Newcastle
University of Newcastle can refer to:* Newcastle University, a university in the United Kingdom* University of Newcastle, Australia, a university in New South Wales...
.