Open Science, Open Data, and Open Source

Tony Hey, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research Connections, delivers this keynote presentation at the 2011 Microsoft Research Latin American Faculty Summit.

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As corporate vice president of the Microsoft Research Connections division of Microsoft Research, Tony Hey is responsible for worldwide external research collaboration in Microsoft Research. He leads the company’s efforts to build long-term public-private partnerships with global scientific and engineering communities, spanning broad reach and in-depth engagements with academic and research institutions, related government agencies, and industry partners. His responsibilities also include working with internal Microsoft groups to build future technologies and products that will transform computing for scientific and engineering research. Hey manages the U.S.-based external research group for North and South America, and the multidisciplinary eScience Research Group. He also has dotted-line management responsibility for Microsoft Research’s Connections teams in Asia, Europe, and India.

Before joining Microsoft, Hey served as director of the U.K.’s e-Science Initiative, managing the government’s efforts to provide scientists and researchers with access to key computing technologies. Before leading this initiative, Hey worked as head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, and dean of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Southampton, where he helped build the department into one of the most respected computer science research institutions in England.

His research interests focus on parallel programming for parallel systems built from mainstream commodity components. With Jack Dongarra, Rolf Hempel and David Walker, he wrote the first draft of a specification for a new message-passing standard called MPI. This initiated the process that led to the successful MPI standard of today.

Hey is a fellow of the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering. He also has served on several national committees in the U.K., including committees of the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry, and the Office of Science and Technology. He is a fellow of the British Computer Society, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, the Institute of Physics, and the U.S. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Tony Hey also has a passionate interest in communicating the excitement of science to young people. He has written “popular” books on quantum mechanics and on relativity.

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Tony Hey
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