Bio
William E. Johnston is a Senior Scientist and manager of
the
US Dept. of Energy, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
(www.es.net)
in the
Information Technologies and Services Division
of the
Computing Sciences Directorate
of
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
and task manager for the Prototype Data Services in the Grid Common Services project at NASA Ames Research Center.
His long time research interests include high-speed, wide area
network based, distributed systems, widely distributed computational
and data "Grids," Public-Key Infrastructure based security and
authorization systems, and use of the global Internet to enable
remote access to scientific, analytical, and medical instrumentation.
Recent professional activities have included Dept. Head of the Distributed
Systems Dept. in the Computational Research Division, and Principal Investigator for
several US Dept. of Energy, Office of Science projects related to
these topics, including the DOE Science Grid
(doesciencegrid.org).
In the Global Grid Forum he is an Area Director-at-Large
(www.gridforum.org ). He is also co-founder (with Ian Foster and
Charlie Catlett) of the Grid Forum (now merged with the European
Grid Forum to form the Global Grid Forum).
Mr. Johnston has worked in the field of computing for more than 35
years, and has taught computer science at the under graduate and
graduate levels. He has a Masters Degree in Mathematics and Physics
from San Francisco State University. He may be reached at
wej@es.net.
For
more information see
www.itg.lbl.gov/~johnston.
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