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Alan Edelman, Chief Science Officer Alan is a preeminent authority and visionary in the area of high performance computing and numerical algorithms. He learned about parallel computing at Thinking Machines while working on his dissertation in 1988 and has worked on improving the ease of programming and the interoperability of algorithms ever since. Alan is a professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, and has served as Head of the Applied Computing Group at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He has taught courses on parallel scientific computing for over a decade, and has been involved with parallel computing applications across a broad spectrum of engineering, science, and finance. Alan has won numerous awards and prizes in the areas of mathematics, parallel computing, and teaching. | 