(ORNL press launch) Computing pioneer Jack Dongarra has been elected to the Nationwide Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and persevering with achievements in authentic analysis.
Dongarra is an R&D workers member in Oak Ridge Nationwide Laboratory’s Laptop Science and Arithmetic Division and professor emeritus on the College of Tennessee, Knoxville, the place he just lately retired as founding director of UT’s Modern Computing Laboratory.
In 2022, Dongarra was a recipient of the A.M. Turing Award from the Affiliation for Computing Equipment, recognizing his modern contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high-performance computational software program to maintain tempo with exponential {hardware} enhancements for over 4 a long time.
“All through his profession, Jack has made contributions which have ceaselessly altered the computing neighborhood and a number of establishments, together with ORNL,” mentioned Jeff Smith, ORNL interim director. “That is an unimaginable, well-deserved achievement, and we’re proud to name Jack one in every of our personal.”
Dongarra joins a choose group of ORNL researchers who’ve been elected to the Nationwide Academy of Sciences, which is a non-public, nonprofit establishment established beneath a congressional constitution signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It acknowledges achievement in science by election to membership, and—with the Nationwide Academy of Engineering and the Nationwide Academy of Drugs—offers science, engineering, and well being coverage recommendation to the federal authorities and different organizations.
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