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University of Chicago Computer Scientist Ian Foster Named 2009 Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery

Ian Foster named 2009 fellow of Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery has honored University of Chicago computer scientist Ian Foster as a 2009 ACM Fellow.

Foster, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science and Director of the Computation Institute, is among 47 new ACM Fellows from universities, industries and laboratories around the world.

Foster also is a Chan Soon-Shiong Scholar at UChicago and an Argonne Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory.

The ACM cited Foster, “For work in parallel programming languages, collaborative and distributed computing.”

The world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, ACM established the fellows program in 1993.

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