Ian Tremere Foster (born January 1, 1959) is a New Zealand-American computer scientist who coined the term grid computing with Carl Kesselman and Steve Tuecke, developing techniques including the Strand programming language and the Globus Toolkit that paved the way for cloud computing. He is a distinguished fellow and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, where he directs the Data Science and Learning division, and a professor in the computer science department at the University of Chicago, where he directed the joint Computation Institute from 2006 to 2016. CERN director Rolf-Dieter Heuer credited Foster's grid computing work as one of the elements essential to the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson.
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Ian Foster co-authored the field's canonical founding text and is credited (with Carl Kesselman and Steve Tuecke) as one of the field's fathers.
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Ian Foster (computer scientist) (born 1959), New Zealand-American computer scientist
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The power grid metaphor for accessible computing quickly became canonical when Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman published their seminal work, "The Grid: Blueprint for a new computing infrastructure" (1999).
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led to the first global computing grid
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