Geoffrey C. Fox
Geoffrey Charles Fox (born 7 June 1944) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and computer scientist, Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computing, and Physics at Indiana University.
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 Geoffrey Fox at Indiana in 2004 | |
| Born | Geoffrey Charles Fox June 7, 1944 |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Known for | Cyberinfrastructure, E-Science, High Performance Computing, Matrix Multiplication |
| Awards | ACM Fellow Fellow of the American Physical Society Mayhew Prize (1964) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science, physics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, Florida State University, Indiana University |
| Thesis | Scattering of Particles with Spin And Electromagnetic Interactions (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard J. Eden |
| Other academic advisors | Richard Feynman |
In 1964 he was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, the best performer in the mathematics tripos. In the same year he also played in the annual chess match against Oxford University.
He received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University in 1967 and held positions at Caltech,[1] Syracuse University[2] and Florida State University[3] before becoming being appointed professor at Indiana University, where he is director of the Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the School of Informatics and Computing
He has supervised the Ph.D. of 65 students and published over 1200 publications in physics and computer science according to Google Scholar, including his book Parallel Computing Works![4]
He currently works to apply computer science to bioinformatics, defense, earthquake and ice-sheet science, particle physics and chemical informatics. He is principal investigator of FutureGrid – a new cyberinfrastructure test to enable development of new approaches to scientific computing. He is involved in several projects to enhance the capabilities of Minority Serving Institutions.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 "for contributions centered on novel uses of computers; firstly, in the phenomenological comparison of theory and experiment in particle physics, and secondly, in the design and use of parallel computers" [5]
Notes
- http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3419/1/Cubism.pdf
- "I: Key Personnel".
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Geoffrey_Fox
- Fox, Geoffrey (1994). Parallel Computing Works!. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-253-4.
- "APS Fellows Archive". APS. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
