Tony Hey | |
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.jpg) Tony Hey talking at Pop!Tech 2009 | |
| Born | Anthony John Grenville Hey (1946-08-17)17 August 1946 (age 78)[4][5] England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | King Edward's School, Birmingham |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)[4] |
| Awards | ACM Fellow (2017)[1] Pinkerton Lecture (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | Polarization in electron-proton scattering (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | P. K. Kabir[3] |
Anthony John Grenville Hey (born 17 August 1946)[4] was vice-president of Microsoft Research Connections, a division ofMicrosoft Research, until his departure in 2014.[2][6][7][8][9]
Hey was educated atKing Edward's School, Birmingham[4] and theUniversity of Oxford. He graduated with aBachelor of Arts degree inphysics in 1967, and a Doctor of Philosophy intheoretical physics[3] in 1970 supervised by P. K. Kabir. He was a student ofWorcester College, Oxford andSt John's College, Oxford.[4]
From 1970 through 1972 Hey was apostdoctoral fellow atCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech).Moving toPasadena, California, he worked withRichard Feynman andMurray Gell-Mann, both winners of theNobel Prize in Physics.[10]He then moved toGeneva, Switzerland and worked as a fellow atCERN (the European organisation for nuclear research) for two years.Hey worked about thirty years as an academic atUniversity of Southampton, starting in 1974 as aparticle physicist.He spent 1978 as a visiting fellow atMassachusetts Institute of Technology.For 1981 he returned to Caltech as a visiting research professor. There he learned ofCarver Mead's work onvery-large-scale integration and become interested in applyingparallel computing techniques to large-scale scientific simulations.
Hey worked with British semiconductor companyInmos on theTransputer project in the 1980s. He switched tocomputer science in 1985, and in 1986 became professor of computation in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton. While there, he was promoted to Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science in 1994 and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science in 1999. Among his work was "doing research onUnix with tools likeLaTeX."[11] In 1990 he was a visiting fellow at theThomas J. Watson Research Center ofIBM Research.He then worked withJack Dongarra, Rolf Hempel and David Walker, to define theMessage Passing Interface (MPI)[12] which became a de facto open standard for parallel scientific computing.[13]In 1998 he was a visiting research fellow atLos Alamos National Laboratory in the USA.[14]
Hey led theUK's e-Science Programme from March 2001 to June 2005.He was appointed corporate vice-president of technical computing atMicrosoft on 27 June 2005.[15]Later he became corporate vice-president of external research, and in 2011 corporate vice-president of Microsoft Research Connections until his departure in 2014.[16]
Since 2015, Hey has held the position of Chief Data Scientist at the UK'sScience and Technology Facilities Council,[17] and is a Senior Data Science Fellow[18] at the University of Washington eScience Institute.
Hey is the editor of the journalConcurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.[19][20] Among other scientific advisory boards in Europe and the United States, he is a member of theGlobal Grid Forum (GGF) Advisory Committee.[citation needed]
Hey has authored or co-authored a number of books includingThe Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery,[21]The Quantum Universe[22],The New Quantum Universe,[23]The Feynman Lectures on Computation[24][25] andEinstein's Mirror.[26] Hey has also authored numerous peer-reviewed journal papers.[2][6][7][8][27][28][29][30]His latest book is a popular book on computer science calledThe Computing Universe: A Journey through a Revolution.[31]
Hey had an open scholarship toWorcester College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1967, won the Scott Prize for Physics in 1967, senior scholarship toSt John's College, Oxford, in 1968 and was aHarkness Fellow from 1970 through 1972.[5]Hey was made a Commander of theOrder of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005. He was elected aFellow of theBritish Computer Society (FBCS) in 1996, theInstitute of Physics (FInstP) and theInstitution of Electrical Engineers in 1996 and theRoyal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2001.[5]In 2006 he presented the prestigious IETPinkerton Lecture. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree fromNewcastle University.[10] In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM).[1]
