CRPC director Kennedy will advise President

17 Jun 2002

President Clinton this week appointed Rice University Computer Science Professor Ken Kennedy to co-chair a new committee that will advise the federal government on issues that impact high-end computing, information technology, and networking.

Kennedy, who also serves as Director of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC), headquartered at Rice, was one of 20 representatives from academia, industry, and government to be invited to serve on the Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet.

Kennedy expects that the committee, which will advise the White House through the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), will "focus on federal programs of research investment in high-end computer, information, and communication technologies, like the Next Generation Internet, but will stay away from regulatory issues."