Roscoe Giles
Roscoe C. Giles, III is an African-American computer engineer, the deputy director of Boston University's Center for Computational Science.[1] He is also a professor of computer and electrical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering,[2] with a joint appointment in physics.[3]
Academic biography
Giles earned his bachelor's degree in Physics at the University of Chicago in 1970.[4] In 1975 he received his doctorate from Stanford University,[2][3][4] becoming the first African American to earn his Ph. D. in theoretical physics from that school. He was an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1979 to 1985, at which point he joined the Boston University faculty as an associate professor, and was promoted to full professor in 1999.[4]
Research
Roscoe Giles uses high performance parallel computers to solve problems in physics and material science and develops algorithms for large scale micro magnetic modeling and molecular dynamics simulation.
Other activities
In 2002 Giles was the chair of the Supercomputing Conference in Baltimore, becoming the first African American to take this role.[5] In 2004 he became the first faculty member to serve on the BU board of trustees.[6]
Roscoe Giles is the founder and executive director for the Institution of African American E-Culture. This foundation was developed to deal with the problem of the digital divide, or the lack of access to information technology by minority groups and other poor communities in the US.[7]
Giles was also a team leader in the National Science Foundation's National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) Education, Outreach and Training group, through which students and teachers learned to use advanced computing systems for understanding, modeling and solving problems.[8][9] As of 2010, he is the chair of the United States Department of Energy's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee.[4]
Awards and honors
In 2000 Giles won the A. Nico Habermann Award of the Computing Research Association for "outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers and/or successes of underrepresented groups in the computing research community".[8] In 2004 he was listed by the Career Communications Group as one of the "50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science".[10]
References
- ↑ Center for Computational Science People, retrieved May 7, 2010.
- 1 2 Faculty profile, Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, retrieved May 7, 2010.
- 1 2 Faculty profile, Boston University Department of Physics, retrieved 2010-05-07.
- 1 2 3 4 ASCAC Members Bio's (sic), retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ↑ "Supercomputing conference seeks faculty participation", Black Issues in Higher Education, April 11, 2002.
- ↑ Bombardieri, Marcella (September 23, 2004), "Leader eyed in search at BU", Boston Globe.
- ↑ "Brainy bunch heads for the Cape Flats", Independent Online (South Africa), June 23, 2006.
- 1 2 2000 CRA A. Nico Habermann Award Winner Dr. Roscoe Giles, Computing Research Association, retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ↑ Finley, Amy; Redelfs, Ann; Moses, Greg (1998), "Education, Outreach, and Training: Encouraging the high-performance computational community while educating U.S. students at all levels in basic math and science", Communications of the ACM 41 (11): 74–75, doi:10.1145/287831.287842.
- ↑ "Roscoe Giles Named One of Most Important Blacks in Research Science", NCSA News (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), September 3, 2004.
External links
- Computer Scientists of the African Diaspora: Roscoe Giles. Scott Williams, State University of New York at Buffalo.
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