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Monday, June 4, 2007
Morning Keynote


Rob Pennington
Deputy Director
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois

A long-time key member of the leadership team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Rob Pennington oversees the activities in all of the center’s directorates to ensure that the scientists and engineers using its resources and services see a unified, seamless environment that brings the most advanced technologies to bear on their problems. He is also responsible for coordinating major campus- and region-wide efforts to build an integrated cyberinfrastructure and he continues to lead the center's Innovative Systems Laboratory, driving the center's efforts to realize the future of computing by researching and deploying innovative systems that decrease the cost and/or extend the range of computational science and engineering.