Prof. Foster is considered one of the founders of the international Grid community and has written many influential documents on Grid architecture and principles. He created the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne and UofC, which has pioneered key Grid concepts, developed Globus software, the most widely deployed Grid software, and led the development of successful Grid applications across the sciences. An internationally recognized and widely cited researcher, Foster is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the British Computer Society. With Univa Co-Founder Dr. Carl Kesselman, he co-edited The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, now in its second edition (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003). Foster graduated with a B.S. in computer science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a Ph.D. in computer science from Imperial College, United Kingdom.
Prof. Foster has also participated and provided his support to ISSGC.
:: Prof Malcolm Atkinson
Malcolm Atkinson is Director of the e-Science Institute. He is the UK e-Science Envoy and plays a leading role in OMII-UK, and is on the advisory boards of GOSC, NCeSS, Baltic Grid and GEON. He leads the EU IST project International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education (ICEAGE). This project organised the ISSGC08. He chaired the ISSGC'08 Programme Committee. He is a member of the Open Grid Forum (OGF) Board. He is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee Board and JISC Support for Research Committee. He is a representative of the UK at the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group.
He began his career in computing in 1966. He has worked at seven universities: Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Edinburgh, UEA, Cambridge, Rangoon and Lancaster; and for two companies:
Sun Microsystems (at SunLabs in California) and O2 (an Object-Oriented DB company in its early years in Versailles).
He led the development of the Department of Computing Science in Glasgow and is now Professor of e-Science in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He has more than 130 publications. His current research is concerned with data integration and its applications.
:: Prof Miron Livny
Miron Livny received a BSc degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1975 from the Hebrew University and MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1978 and 1984, respectively. Since 1983 he has been on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently a Professor of Computer Sciences and is leading the Condor project.
Dr. Livny's research focuses on distributed processing and data management systems and data visualization environments. His recent work includes the Condor high throughput computing system, the DEVise data visualization and exploration environment and the BMRB repository for data from NMR spectroscopy.
Dr Livny has been an invaluable contributor to the International Summer School on Grid Computing ever since the beginning of this successful series of summer schools.
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Prof. Foster is considered one of the founders of the international Grid community and has written many influential documents on Grid architecture and principles. He created the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne and UofC, which has pioneered key Grid concepts, developed Globus software, the most widely deployed Grid software, and led the development of successful Grid applications across the sciences. An internationally recognized and widely cited researcher, Foster is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the British Computer Society. With Univa Co-Founder Dr. Carl Kesselman, he co-edited The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, now in its second edition (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003). Foster graduated with a B.S. in computer science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a Ph.D. in computer science from Imperial College, United Kingdom.
Malcolm Atkinson is Director of the e-Science Institute. He is the UK e-Science Envoy and plays a leading role in OMII-UK, and is on the advisory boards of GOSC, NCeSS, Baltic Grid and GEON. He leads the EU IST project International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education (ICEAGE). This project organised the ISSGC08. He chaired the ISSGC'08 Programme Committee. He is a member of the Open Grid Forum (OGF) Board. He is a member of the Joint Information Systems Committee Board and JISC Support for Research Committee. He is a representative of the UK at the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group.
He began his career in computing in 1966. He has worked at seven universities: Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Edinburgh, UEA, Cambridge, Rangoon and Lancaster; and for two companies:
Sun Microsystems (at SunLabs in California) and O2 (an Object-Oriented DB company in its early years in Versailles). 
Miron Livny received a BSc degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1975 from the Hebrew University and MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1978 and 1984, respectively. Since 1983 he has been on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently a Professor of Computer Sciences and is leading the Condor project.
Dr. Livny's research focuses on distributed processing and data management systems and data visualization environments. His recent work includes the Condor high throughput computing system, the DEVise data visualization and exploration environment and the BMRB repository for data from NMR spectroscopy.
Dr Livny has been an invaluable contributor to the International Summer School on Grid Computing ever since the beginning of this successful series of summer schools. 