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High-Productivity Languages for Petascale Computing

Dr. Hans Zima
California Institute of Technology, USA

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Hans P. Zima is a Professor of Applied Computer Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a Principal Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics and Astronomy from the University of Vienna in 1964.
His major research interests have been in the fields of high-level programming languages, compilers, and advanced software tools. In the early 1970s, while working in industry, he designed and implemented one of the first high-level real-time languages for the German Air Traffic Control Agency. During his tenure as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn, Germany, he contributed to the German supercomputer project "SUPRENUM", leading the design of the first Fortran-based compilation system for distributed-memory architectures (1989). After his move to the University of Vienna, he became the chief designer of the Vienna Fortran language (1992) that provided a major input for the High Performance Fortran de-facto standard. Since 1997, Dr. Zima has been heading the Priority Research Program "Aurora", a ten-year program funded by the Austrian Science Foundation. His research over the past four years focused on the design of the "Chapel" programming language in the framework of the DARPA-sponsored HPCS project "Cascade".
Most recently, he has become involved in the design of the software infrastructure for future NASA space missions, which are expected to have a high degree of autonomy supported by heterogeneous massively parallel on-board systems.
Dr. Zima is the author or co-author of about 170 publications, including 4 books.

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