Miron Livny ( he, מירון לבני) is a senior researcher and professor specializing in

distributed computing A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different computer network, networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by message passing, passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed com ...

at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

. Livny has been a professor of

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

at Wisconsin since 1983, where he leads the

HTCondor HTCondor is an open-source high-throughput computing software framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of computationally intensive tasks. It can be used to manage workload on a dedicated cluster of computers, or to farm out wor ...

high-throughput computing In computer science, high-throughput computing (HTC) is the use of many computing resources over long periods of time to accomplish a computational task. Challenges The HTC community is also concerned with robustness and reliability of jobs over ...

system project. Miron is also a principal investigator and currently the facility coordinator for the

Open Science Grid The Open Science Grid Consortium is an organization that administers a worldwide grid of technological resources called the Open Science Grid, which facilitates distributed computing for scientific research. Founded in 2004, the consortium is com ...

project, Director of the Center for High Throughput computing, CTO of

Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery is a public-private research and outreach partnership that is located in the Discovery Building on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. It consists of two institutions: the privately funded Morgridge ...

, and Director of Core Computational Technology of the

Morgridge Institute for Research The Morgridge Institute for Research is a private, nonprofit biomedical research institute in Madison, Wis., affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The institute works to improve human health by conducting, enabling and translating ...

. In 2006, along with

Raghu Ramakrishnan Raghu Ramakrishnan is a researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He has been a Vice President and Research Fellow for Yahoo! Inc. Ramakrishnan spent 22 years as a professor at the Un ...

, Professor Livny won the

SIGMOD SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases. The annual ACM SIGMOD Conference, which began in 1975, is considered one of ...

Test of Time award for his seminal work on distributed databases.

Education

* Ph.D., Computer Science, August 1983.

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

. (Thesis: ''The Study of Load Balancing Algorithms for Decentralized Processing Systems'') * M.S., Computer Science, 1978.

. * B.S., Physics and Mathematics, 1975.

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

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External links

Personal web page

HTCondor Project home page

Open Science Grid home page

Center for High Throughput Computing

Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
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