Marc Snir, Israeli-American Professor of Computer Science

Doctor Honoris causa of ENS de Lyon, November 9, 2018 Biography Marc Snir is currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the United States. After defending a mathematics thesis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1979, he worked on the New York University Ultracomputer Project from 1980 to 1982. In 1986, he joined IBM and until 2001, he was a senior manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he led the Scalable Parallel Systems research group that created the IBM Blue Gene system, the first machine to deploy a massive number of processing cores. He is one of the major contributors to the computer architectures of today. He was head of the computer department at the UIUC from 2001 to 2007, and then, Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) from 2011 to 2016. Marc Snir's publications cover a broad spectrum of computing, covering parallel algorithms, programming models and computer architecture. He has published numerous articles and scientific works including The Future of Supercomputing.