August 01, 2008 — Grid computing pioneer and computer science research professor Carl Kesselman has accepted a primary appointment in the Viterbi School's Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), with a joint appointment in the Computer Science Department beginning this fall.


Carl Kesselman

Kesselman, director of the Center for Grid Technologies, and a longtime colleague, Ian Foster, who is a professor of computer science at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, co-direct the Globus Project, which connects geographically distant computers and allows them to share raw computing power and data. The software addresses the security, data management, execution management, resource discovery and other issues that arise from network sharing.

Kesselman will become a professor of systems engineering, but continue his work in large-scale distributed systems and virtual organizations, with an emphasis in health care informatics.