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SCOTT A. LATHROP – Program Manager, EOT-PACI at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
National Center for Supercomputing Applications 1986-Present

Program Manager, Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) - Assist the Senior Associate Director in the activities related to External Programs, which works with Industry, Government and Education to identify and support collaborations with the National Computational Science Alliance (the Alliance), a ten-year NSF funded program to create an advanced computational infrastructure for the 21st Century. Through these activities, I am involved in working with the national Education, Outreach and Training partners of the National Computational Science Alliance. In my years with NCSA, I have supervised activities in documentation, visualization, applications software, consulting, training, and education.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Computing Services Office 1973-1986

EDUCATION:

B.A. Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1973

EXPERIENCE:

Experience on mainframes including IBM OS/MVT, IBM VM/CMS, DEC-10 TOPS, CDC Cyber NOS, and VAX 11/780 UNIX systems. Experience on supercomputers including CRAY X-MP/48 with CTSS and UNICOS and CRAY-2 with UNICOS. Experience with various workstations including IBM PCs, Apple Macintosh and SUN.

Three years experience with data communications and networking including modems, multiplexors, and local area networks using baseband, broadband and fiber-optic media. Direct experience has been with Sytek, HYPERchannel, Ethernet, ProNET and IBM PC Networks and helping define the specifications for the campus backbone data network, and helped select and test the equipment.

ASSOCIATIONS:

Member of ACM, IEEE

GRANTS:

$75,000 - NSF grant for 1987 Summer Institute
$42,062 - NSF grant for 1988 Summer Institute
$26,752 - NSF grant for Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 1990
$20,000 - NSF grant for Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 1991
$20,000 - NSF grant for Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 1992
$538,135 - NSF 3 year sub-contract for SuperQuest, 1991-1994
$155,690 - NSF grant for HPCC Education Affiliations
$256,588 - NSF grant for Resource for Science Education
$553,000 - NSF grant for Networking Infrastructure for Education
$21,980 - NSF grant for EUFOTTET Project
$319,710 - NSF grant for Biology Student Workbench


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