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.
Professor 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.
:: Prof Wolfgang Gentzsch
Wolfgang Gentzsch is a Director of the OGF Open Grid Forum, and Advisor to the EU project DEISA on Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications. He directed the 3-year German Government funded D-Grid Initiative; he was an adjunct professor of computer science at Duke University in Durham and at NC State in Raleigh, and visiting scientist at RENCI Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC Chapel Hill; Vice Chair of the EU e-Infrastructure Reflection Group e-IRG; Area Director of Major Grid Projects of the Open Grid Forum Steering Group; and a member of the US President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, PCAST, and before held positions at Sun, MCNC, Gridware, and Genias. Wolfgang studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University in Aachen (MS, 1972), and received his PhD on nonlinear systems of partial differential equations from University Darmstadt, Germany, in 1976.
:: Prof Dan Fraser
Dan Fraser is a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. Currently he is the Production Coordinator for the Open Science Grid.
Formerly he was the Senior Architect for Grid Middleware at Sun Microsystems and the creator of Sun's Technical Computing Portal. He has a PhD in Physics from Utah State University and over a decade of experience working with high performance science and commercial applications.
:: Dr Steven Newhouse
Steven Newhouse was appointed Technical Director of the Enabling Grids for e-Science (EGEE) project in November 2008, and was recently appointed as Interim Director of the European Grid Initiative (EGI). Previously, he worked as a Program Manager in the High Performance Computing group in the Windows Server division at Microsoft, USA, where he managed access to the Windows Computer Cluster Server product from non-Windows environments; primarily through the Open Grid Forum's (OGF) High Performance Computing Basic Profile (HPCBP) specification. He is a member of the OGF Standards Council where he is responsible for Application Standards and remains involved in several OGF working groups. Before starting at Microsoft in 2007, he was Director of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK (OMII-UK), and on the management or supervisory boards of several major centres and projects within the UK e-Science programme. Previously, he was the Sun Lecturer in e-Science in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and Technical Director of the London e-Science Centre (LeSC), also based at Imperial, where he did his early research into the modelling of underwater acoustics using high performance computing resources.
Dr Newhouse has also participated and provided his support to ISSGC.
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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.
Professor 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. 
Wolfgang Gentzsch is a Director of the OGF Open Grid Forum, and Advisor to the EU project DEISA on Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications. He directed the 3-year German Government funded D-Grid Initiative; he was an adjunct professor of computer science at Duke University in Durham and at NC State in Raleigh, and visiting scientist at RENCI Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC Chapel Hill; Vice Chair of the EU e-Infrastructure Reflection Group e-IRG; Area Director of Major Grid Projects of the Open Grid Forum Steering Group; and a member of the US President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, PCAST, and before held positions at Sun, MCNC, Gridware, and Genias. Wolfgang studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University in Aachen (MS, 1972), and received his PhD on nonlinear systems of partial differential equations from University Darmstadt, Germany, in 1976.
Dan Fraser is a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. Currently he is the Production Coordinator for the Open Science Grid.
Formerly he was the Senior Architect for Grid Middleware at Sun Microsystems and the creator of Sun's Technical Computing Portal. He has a PhD in Physics from Utah State University and over a decade of experience working with high performance science and commercial applications.
Steven Newhouse was appointed Technical Director of the Enabling Grids for e-Science (EGEE) project in November 2008, and was recently appointed as Interim Director of the European Grid Initiative (EGI). Previously, he worked as a Program Manager in the High Performance Computing group in the Windows Server division at Microsoft, USA, where he managed access to the Windows Computer Cluster Server product from non-Windows environments; primarily through the Open Grid Forum's (OGF) High Performance Computing Basic Profile (HPCBP) specification. He is a member of the OGF Standards Council where he is responsible for Application Standards and remains involved in several OGF working groups. Before starting at Microsoft in 2007, he was Director of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK (OMII-UK), and on the management or supervisory boards of several major centres and projects within the UK e-Science programme. Previously, he was the Sun Lecturer in e-Science in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and Technical Director of the London e-Science Centre (LeSC), also based at Imperial, where he did his early research into the modelling of underwater acoustics using high performance computing resources.