Larry Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership, and holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering.
At Calit2, Larry has continued to drive major developments in information infrastructure – including the Internet, the Web, scientific visualization, virtual reality, and global telepresence -begun during his previous 15 years as founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). His views have been quoted in Science, Nature, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Wired, Fortune, BusinessWeek, and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Larry is currently principal investigator of the Moore Foundation’s CAMERA project and co-principal investigator on NSF’s GreenLight project. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006, he received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his lifetime achievements in distributed computing systems. Larry is a member of the SNS Future in Review (FiRe) advisory board, and Calit2 operates as the FiRe Lab.
Larry’s personal interests include orchids and coral reefs, quantifying the state of his body, and researching the details of the global energy system and the global climatic disruption it is causing. You can follow him as Larry Smarr on Google+,lsmarr on Twitter, and on his life-streaming portal at http://lsmarr.calit2.net.