Miron Livny
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| Miron Livny | |
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| Born | May 1, 1950 |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Alma mater | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Known for | Condor |
Miron Livny (Hebrew: מירון לבני) is a senior researcher and professor specializing in distributed computing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Livny has been a professor of computer science at Wisconsin since 1983, where he leads the Condor high-throughput computing system project. Miron is also a principal investigator and currently the facility coordinator for the Open Science Grid project.
In 2006, along with Raghu Ramakrishnan, Professor Livny won the SIGMOD Test of Time award for his seminal work on distibuted databases.[1]
[edit] Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, August 1983. Weizmann Institute of Science. (Thesis: The Study of Load Balancing Algorithms for Decentralized Processing Systems)
- M.S., Computer Science, 1978. Weizmann Institute of Science.
- B.S., Physics and Mathematics, 1975. Hebrew University.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Association for Computing Machinery (2006). SIGMOD Test of Time Award. Retrieved on April 10, 2007.
