The panel will help develop a strategy for achieving the administration's stated goal of accelerating development and adoption of information technologies that will be vital for American prosperity in the 21st century. But that's the position America finds itself in right now in the global race for information technology preeminence. The goal of the committee is to chart a course that maintains America's lead. I am pleased and honored to be a part of the panel and its impressive list of appointees. It is also a honor for the Laboratory and serves as further evidence that Livermore has returned to the forefront of supercomputing.
Cooper is the only member of the committee representing a governmental organization.
He joined Lawrence Livermore, which is operated by the University of California for the Department of Energy, in late 1995 as Associate Director of Computation. He was named Livermore's first CIO last year. Cooper received his BS in Physics from Texas Technological University in 1962, a MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in Physics from York University in 1974. While at Ames he earned the 1994 NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Exceptional Service for his pioneering work on high performance computing. In his role as head of computation at Livermore, Cooper has overall responsibility for operating the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative's computing platforms.