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The University of Oklahoma Office of the Vice President for Research and University Libraries present a conversation with Tony Hey, CBE. This talk is broadcast live from Meacham Auditorium on the campus of the University of Oklahoma.
Toney Hey is a fellow of the AAAS and of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering, who began his career as a theoretical physicist and later moved into parallel computing & computing science. Hey co-wrote the first draft of the successful MPI message-passing standard and led the U.K.'s ground-breaking 'eScience' initiative in 2001. From 2005-2014, Hey was a Vice President at Microsoft responsible for their global university research engagements. Hey is now a Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. In 2005, Hey was awarded a CBE by Prince Charles for his 'services to science.'
The University of Oklahoma Office of the Vice President for Research and University Libraries present a conversation with Tony Hey, CBE. This talk is broadcast live from Meacham Auditorium on the campus of the University of Oklahoma.
Toney Hey is a fellow of the AAAS and of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering, who began his career as a theoretical physicist and later moved into parallel computing & computing science. Hey co-wrote the first draft of the successful MPI message-passing standard and led the U.K.'s ground-breaking 'eScience' initiative in 2001. From 2005-2014, Hey was a Vice President at Microsoft responsible for their global university research engagements. Hey is now a Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. In 2005, Hey was awarded a CBE by Prince Charles for his 'services to science.'
