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He received both his BA and MS at the University Of Missouri–Columbia and received a Ph.D. in physics from the University Of Texas At Austin in 1975, did research at Princeton University , Yale , and Harvard , and then joined the faculty of the University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign in 1979. He is presently a Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies at the University Of California, San Diego . In 1985, Smarr founded and became the director of the National Center For Supercomputing Applications at UIUC, one of the National Science Foundation 's flagship supercomputing centers. He argued for the creation of a high-speed network linking the national centers, which became the NSFnet , predecessor to today's Internet. When the NSF revised its funding of supercomputer centers in 1997, Smarr became director of the National Computational Science Alliance, linking dozens of universities and research labs with NCSA to prototype the concept of Grid Computing . In 2000, Smarr moved to California and proposed the creation of the California Institute For Telecommunications And Information Technology (Calit2), linking departments and researchers at UCSD and UC Irvine . Smarr currently serves as Institute Director of Calit2. As part of the work of Calit2, he is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project, an "optical backplane for planetary scale distributed computing". He attended the symposium on November 2006. RECOGNITION Smarr has received numerous honors and awards, including:
In 2005, Smarr was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado. PUBLICATIONS A few of Smarr's publications are:
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