ACM Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Myron Ginsberg Coming to UNLV
April 20th and 21st
April 20 5:30 PM TBE B-172
4:30-5:15 refreshments and "great and talk".
Increasing the Half-Life of a Computer Scientist / Computer Engineer: A Career Guide to Survivability in the 21st Century
April 21 2:30 PM TBE A-107
The Quest for a Petaflop Class Computer for Large-Scale Scientific and Engineering Applications
Biographical Information
Myron has over twenty-five years experience in high performance computing (HPC) in private industry, academia, and government research labs. His research interests are in large-scale scientific / engineering computations and in benchmarking methodology for assessing the performance limitations of modestly and massively parallel computing systems. He is the first ACM Fellow from the world automotive industry and was cited for his "pioneering and sustained contributions to supercomputing research and its application to the automotive industry in addition to distinguished teaching and service in HPC." He has served as an distinguished national lecturer for ACM, SIAM, IEEE, ASME, SAE, and Sigma Xi. He holds a BA and MA in mathematics and a Ph.D. in computer science. Dr. Ginsberg is currently an HPC consultant to the automotive industry, having previously been a staff research scientist at General Motors Research.