Meet the GROC

The first GROC members have been chosen from esteemed colleagues with high academic status, possessing wealth of experience in conducting, directing and advising academic research, as well as having significant involvement with Grid activities.

The current term of appointment for GROC members is planned to be one year, with renewal possibilities.  The current GROC members are:

• Satoshi Matsuoka, GROC co-chair,  Professor of Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences and Directory Global Scientific Information and Computing (GSIC) Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Dennis Gannon, GROC co-chair, Chair Department of Computer Science, Indiana University and Science Director,  Indiana Pervasive Technology Laboratories
• Malcolm Atkinson,  Professor of Computer Science Univ. of Glasgow and Univ. of Edinburgh, Director Edinburgh e-Science Research Center
• Henri Bal, Professor Vrije Universiteit, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science
• Francine Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center and Prof. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of California, San Deigo
• Jack Dongarra, Director of Innovative Computing Laboratory and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Univ. of Tennessee.
• David Hutchison, Professor Computing Department Lancaster University
• Carl Kesselman, Director Center for Grid Technologies, Information Sciences Institute Professor Computer Science, University of Southern California
• Domenico Laforenza,   Professor Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, ITALY
• Alexander Reinefeld. Head of Computer Science, Zuse Institute, Berlin, Char, Parallel and Distributed Systems Humbold- Universität zu Berlin.
  

The emphasis of workshops as one of the major GGF activities will allow Research Groups to focus on longer term topics. If the workshops are proven to be successful, then the GROC will oversee most of the GGF research activities as a whole, freeing the GFSG to concentrate more on Working Group and the standards document deliverables management. You are invited to attend the workshops, and provide us with feedback on how we may be improving the process. GROC is a very new part of GGF, but its success will be very important for outreaching into the academia so that new ideas will flourish more rapidly, tying the academia and the industry closer together.

Dennis Gannon and Satoshi Matsuoka

GGF GROC Co-Chairs

gannon@cs.indiana.edu

matsu@is.titech.ac.jp