Ian Foster

Ian Foster dikenal sebagai bapak dari Komputasi Grid. Dia merupakan seorang profesor di Universitas Chicago dan direktur dari "Distributed Systems Lab" (untuk komputasi terdistribusi) di Argonne National Laboratory.

Ian T. Foster
Lahir	1959 (umur 65–66) New Zealand
Tempat tinggal	Chicago, IL, USA
Kebangsaan	New Zealand
Almamater	University of Canterbury Imperial College London (PhD)
Dikenal atas	Grid Computing Globus Toolkit
Penghargaan	Lovelace Medal (2002) Gordon Bell Prize Tsutomu Kanai Award (2011) Fellow of the AAAS ACM Fellow BCS Fellow
Karier ilmiah
Bidang	Computer Science Grid computing[1]
Institusi	University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory
Disertasi	Parlog as a systems programming language (1988)
Pembimbing doktoral	Keith Clark
Mahasiswa doktoral	Timothy Armstrong[butuh rujukan] Soner Balkir[butuh rujukan] Catalin Dumitrescu[butuh rujukan] Adriana Iamnitchi[butuh rujukan] Chuang Liu[butuh rujukan] Quan Pham [butuh rujukan] Ioan Raicu[butuh rujukan] Kavitha Ranganathan [butuh rujukan] Matei Ripeanu[butuh rujukan] Alain Roy[butuh rujukan] Borja Sotomayor[butuh rujukan] Lingyun Yang [butuh rujukan] Zhao Zhang[butuh rujukan] Yong Zhao[butuh rujukan]
Situs web	ianfoster.typepad.com www.cs.uchicago.edu/directory/ian-foster